Greyhound Racing – Investigation causes early reactions

EVEN before it is published, serious questions are hanging over the report into Bord na gCon following a claim by its controversial chairman that media coverage of what the document contains appeared to be at variance with indications that he had received from the author during his investigation.

While Paschal Taggart and the board will not be making a full statement until they have seen the report, the inescapable inference to be drawn from his reaction is that the chairman believes he was given a steer on some aspect while the probe was still in progress.

It defies credulity that any Government inspector, especially a former top civil servant of the standing of Tim Dalton, would approach the process in a manner that could be construed as pre-judging any of its findings before the analysis was completed. That would make a mockery of a procedure bound by clear-cut constraints.