Tim Lucey leaving Cork County Council to take top job at Greyhound Racing Ireland

Mr Lucey wrote to councillors on Friday morning to say that while GRI would be issuing a press release regarding the appointment later, he wanted them “to hear it at first from myself”.

Tim Lucey, chief executive of Cork County Council, is taking up the role of CEO of Greyhound Racing Ireland. Picture: Brian Lougheed

The chief executive of Cork County Council is to leave his post to take up a new role as head of Greyhound Racing Ireland.

Tim Lucey, who had been with the local authority for nine years, told council members on Friday that he had been offered the post of chief executive with the greyhound body and would be taking up the role “later this year”.