Community Radio Kilkenny City is being urged to stop sponsoring greyhound racing.

Most recently, the station sponsored the “Community Radio Kilkenny City 88.7FM A2 Semi-Final” race at Kilkenny track on 25th January https://www.igb.ie/results/view-results/?track=KKY&date=25-Jan-19#race9

Sickening Irish Greyhound Board (IGB) statistics show that in the past four years alone at Kilkenny track, at least 39 greyhounds suffered injuries and 13 were destroyed by a track vet. At tracks around Ireland in the same period, 1,369 greyhounds have been injured and 438 killed.

Every year, an estimated 10,000 greyhounds go missing in the greyhound industry - most likely killed when found to be not quick enough to win races. Others are dumped, drugged, mutilated and exported abroad to countries with little or no animal welfare.

ACTION ALERT

Urge Community Radio Kilkenny City to show compassion and stop supporting an industry in which dogs are injured and killed.

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Email: communityradiokilkennycity@radio.fm

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