"I sincerely hope that hard-pressed Irish taxpayers will make both the misuse of public funds, and the abuse of animals, an election issue". Read Nuala Donlon's Letters to the Editor in today's Sunday Independent...

End greyhound industry funding
Sunday Independent, 26 January 2020

Sir — At a time when acts of crime in this country have never been more violent or brutally depraved, we learn that the Garda Emergency Response Unit does not have the funding needed to do its job properly.

Yet the outgoing Government, along with several of its predecessors, have managed to find €250m to give to the greyhound racing industry since 2002 — an industry which is responsible for overbreeding (and killing) 6,000 plus dogs every year.

Basically, it’s a sector which would have long since ceased to exist if it weren’t for this funding from our taxes.

I sincerely hope that hard-pressed Irish taxpayers will make both the misuse of public funds, and the abuse of animals, an election issue when candidates come looking for their votes in the coming weeks.

Nuala Donlon,
Lanesborough, Co Longford