Readers Blog: Putting the hounds before the hares

RTÉ’s Claire Byrne Live debate on Ireland’s greyhound industry (September 18) highlighted troubling questions about just how inadequate anti doping procedures are on racing tracks.

The industry needs to be opened up to full public inspection, especially as it is heavily subsided by taxpayers’ money: €16m this year.

In any other sport you could expect to be banned for life, or at least gravely censored and fined excessively, for doping. Not to mention the shame and eternal stigma that attach to being caught using prohibited performance-enhancing substances.