Half of all Irish Greyhound Board sponsorship funds will now be ringfenced for a ‘care fund’ established for the wellbeing of greyhounds.

It follows yesterday's announcement by Barry's Tea that they will no longer sponsor an annual race in Curraheen Park in Cork.

Barry’s Tea has formally withdrawn its local sponsorship of an annual greyhound race in the wake of last week’s RTÉ Investigates documentary on the sport in Ireland.

A dog doping case exposed a range of irregularities in the system before the investigator said case closed, writes investigative correspondent Conor Ryan