Letter to the Editor: It’s time to dismantle greyhound industry

I hope that politicians of all shades watched the RTÉ Prime Time Investigates programme on the greyhound industry. They’ll have seen what hard-earned taxpayer’s money is helping to promote: A discredited industry that many of them have, year after year, blithely praised in the Oireachtas for its alleged contribution to Irish culture and the rural economy.

The programme effectively exposed what campaigners like me have been asserting for years. We were laughed at by the head honchos in the industry. Well-crafted press releases thrashed all the allegations concerning the fate of greyhounds that are cruelly disposed of once their running days are over.