Sacked chief executive alleges doping cover-up

THE sacked chief executive of the Irish Greyhound Board (IGB) has alleged, in a letter to Sports Minister John O’Donoghue, that the board’s chairman suppressed two positive cases of EPO doping tests on greyhounds.

Aidan Tynan, who was sacked on Thursday, sent the letter to Mr O’Donoghue on January 18 saying he believed the issue “posed a very serious challenge to the board”.

In particular he warns of “the disintegration of the essential integrity required in managing cases involving the administration of prohibited substances of a serious nature to greyhounds”.