Tynan ‘had no choice but to go public’ over dope findings

AIDAN TYNAN, the former chief executive of Bord na gCon, yesterday defended his decision to go over the head of the authority’s board and inform the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism that two positive dope findings had been suppressed.

In his first public interview since he was sacked in January, he said he had no choice but to go public with the revelation, in order to uphold the authority’s mandate as the regulator for the greyhound industry.

Speaking on RTÉ’s News at One, Mr Tynan said that he felt that, with the board’s annual report due at the end of January, the situation could not have continued where the minister remained unaware the findings had been suppressed.