Sponsors scratch the surface of social media

Whilst talking to IGB chairman Phil Meaney, prior to the start of the Greyhound Forum at Curraheen Park just a couple of months ago, I suggested that the time when the IGB would no longer need a presence on RTÉ’s Aertel service was not far away, but that the time had not yet arrived.

At that stage, there was consternation amongst the more senior members of the greyhound community who, having depended on that service for so many years, felt cut off by its disappearance from our TV screens.

It was, perhaps, a more accurate indication of where we are as a nation than one could ever have expected. It reiterated the fact that we are in that period of transition: That time in which the tech-savvy won’t look back, and the old school struggle to look forward.