Greyhound board spends more than €2m on employees' travel expenses

Salaries paid out by Greyhound Racing Ireland have fallen by more than 40% across 2020. Picture: Stephen McCarthy/Sportsfile

The State body with responsibility for greyhound racing incurred some €2.1m in domestic travel expenses for employees from 2016 to 2019.

New figures show that Greyhound Racing Ireland (formerly known as the Irish Greyhound Board) spent €2.26m subsidising such travel from the start of 2016 to date in 2020.