Greyhound board to announce new chief executive

THE Irish Greyhound Board will announce the successor to former chief executive Aidan Tynan in the next fortnight, The Irish Examiner has learned.

The appointment will come almost a year after Mr Tynan’s dismissal in late January 2005, following a dispute with the then chairman Paschal Taggart.

The post was advertised in mid-February last year and again in September, but Mr Taggart’s successor Dick O’Sullivan denied the post had been offered to one or more candidates and that they had refused. The board’s financial officer has been acting as chief executive since the position became vacant.