Shame on the Castle Hotel Macroom for continuing to sponsor the cruel greyhound industry.

The hotel’s name was attached to a race at Cork’s Curraheen Park last weekend at which a greyhound suffered an horrendous fall at the first bend.

During the “Castle Hotel Macroom - Cork GOBA 525” race, 2-year-old greyhound Satin Gem could be seen falling to the ground and tumbling, with the commentator saying “trouble for six at the back of the field” https://youtu.be/LPyIvk1usRM

The greyhound got up and finished the race. It is not known if an injury was sustained.

Curraheen Park is one of the worst tracks in Ireland for injuries and deaths. 120 greyhounds suffered injuries there and 44 were killed by a track vet over the past five years alone, sickening Irish Greyhound Board statistics show. Among the victims was a dog who died of a “suspected heart attack” in June 2018.

Castle Hotel Macroom has been sponsoring greyhound racing for at least the past decade.

It is also a supporter of cruel hare coursing.

At the Macroom coursing meeting in January, where greyhounds were unleashed to terrorise hares, the hotel sponsored the “Castle Hotel All Age Stake” http://www.greyhound-data.com/knowledge.php?b=9&note=1251363

As previously reported by ICABS, a Castle Hotel Macroom advert published in a coursing booklet, conveyed "best wishes to Cappoquin/Clogheen coursing club". A hotel representative has also been photographed presenting a trophy to the owner of a winning coursing greyhound.

The owners of the hotel are involved in breeding greyhounds, with the hotel’s Facebook page stating that the family has “50 or 60 greyhounds”. According to the hotel’s blog, "Mucky Kennels" - “a purpose built rearing & training facility” - is a “favourite past time of Don & Gerard Buckley of The Castle Hotel”. Among the kennel’s “success stories” listed on the blog is a greyhound who was named "Coursing Bitch Of The Year 2008”.

Mucky Kennels was profiled on a hare coursing website which outlined that “The Buckleys own a fine hotel in Macroom and any leftovers come in handy feeding the [kennel] pups”.

At last year’s Macroom coursing meeting, four hares were caught and pinned to the ground by greyhounds and examined by a vet for injuries. One of the hares required treatment from a vet for the injuries suffered, while two others died from their injuries. Another hare died within the coursing compound from so-called “natural causes”.

ACTION ALERT

BOYCOTT any business that supports the vile greyhound industry, in which around 6,000 greyhounds are killed every year because they are not fast enough to win and which sees thousands of hares snatched from the wild for use as bait for dogs to chase at coursing events.

Urge Castle Hotel Macroom to stop supporting hare coursing and greyhound racing.

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