Letters to the editor: State must stop funding greyhound industry

State funds "are being tipped into a fiscal black hole just to appease a powerful interest group".

On Wednesday, the Dáil will consider a motion from the Social Democrats calling for an end to State funding of the greyhound industry. I hope it passes. The industry is a loss-making one, despite having received more than a quarter of a billion euro of taxpayers’ money since 2001. The allocation was increased this year.

Attendances at tracks have been steadily falling and sponsorship dwindling since an RTÉ Investigates documentary exposed horrific animal cruelty and malpractice.