"TOTAL CARNAGE" at Curraheen Park track in Cork on 1st February, with five greyhounds "on the ground" at the first bend - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-nvyADJP_k
One of the greyhounds, 1-year-old Sportmans Ivy, "did not finish" the race, suggesting she suffered an injury.
Curraheen Park is one of the worst tracks in Ireland for greyhound injuries and deaths. In the first 9 months of 2018, 22 greyhounds suffered injuries there. Eleven of them were put to sleep by a track vet. Another died from a “suspected heart attack”.
Sickening Irish Greyhound Board statistics show that throughout 2018, at least 353 greyhounds suffered injuries and 121 were killed at tracks around Ireland. This brings to 1,559 the number of greyhounds injured and 506 the number of greyhounds killed at Irish tracks in the past four years alone.
The figures are based on "reported" injuries and deaths, suggesting that the actual number could be even higher. This does not include the greyhounds injured at tracks and later killed elsewhere, or the thousands of greyhounds who go missing each year - presumed killed when found to be too slow to win races.
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Don't attend greyhound races or fundraisers/hen parties/office parties held at greyhound tracks.
Nearly a quarter of a billion euros of taxpayers' money has been handed over to greyhound racing since 2001, including €16.8 million for 2019. Join us in appealing to Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe to stop funding the cruel greyhound industry.
An Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar
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Paschal Donohoe TD
Minister for Finance
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REPORTED GREYHOUND INJURIES AND DEATHS AT IRISH TRACKS
2018: Injuries: 353. Deaths 121
2017: Injuries: 357. Deaths: 124
2016: Injuries: 427. Deaths: 139
2015: Injuries: 422. Deaths: 122
Greyhound injuries and deaths by track
(January to September 2018)
Clonmel 15, 06
Curraheen Park 22, 11
Dundalk 10, 06
Enniscorthy 23, 00
Galway 26, 06
Kilkenny 08, 02
Lifford 12, 06
Limerick 39, 10
Longford 07, 00
Mullingar 26, 12
Newbridge 14, 07
Shelbourne Park 37, 08
Thurles 06, 04
Tralee 20, 07
Waterford 08, 04
Youghal 10, 04