Shelbourne flooding compounds industry’s problems

The general media world, which normally pays scant regard to the greyhound sector, suddenly discovered there is such a sport yesterday as a result of yesterday morning’s story in the Irish Examiner concerning the loss of meetings at Shelbourne Park this week due to the recent flooding problem.

My phones were ringing non-stop through the day with RTE Radio and many of the newspapers seeking “leads” on the story. Some of these papers were later actually following up on the Radio follow-up to the story which initially appeared in this paper. It was somewhat akin to a dog trying to grab its own tail!

The callers were full of unofficial theories, many with absolutely no knowledge whatever of the problems at the track which were caused by burst pipes at the end of the freeze-up. God only knows what concocted stories we are going to read and hear in the coming days — it will probably even end up on Whineline (Liveline to the uninitiated).