GRI break pledge and provide just one care home for former racing dogs

Chairman of the sport's governing body, Frank Nyhan, acknowledges that GRI's return to profitability can be attributed to state funding. Picture: Maxwells

Just one new care home for retired racing greyhounds has been established by the sport's governing body, despite a pledge to have four in place by March 2022. 

Greyhound Racing Ireland (GRI) had committed to the establishment of the new homes, one broadly in each geographical region of the country, which it said would represent “a significant expansion” of its care programme, in its just-published annual report for 2021.