Join us in again urging Thurles Credit Union to stop advertising at a greyhound track where dogs suffer and die. A prominent trackside ad banner for the credit union remains in place at Thurles Park stadium despite sickening revelations about cruelty and killing in greyhound racing.

At least 60 greyhounds have suffered injuries at Thurles Park and 27 were killed by a vet over the past six years alone. Among the victims was a greyhound who was destroyed after colliding with an in-field pole on 13 July 2019.

At tracks around Ireland in the same period, 1,891 greyhounds suffered injuries and 625 were killed. These deaths are just the tip of the iceberg - thousands more greyhounds are mercilessly killed annually because they don’t make the grade.

As revealed in the award-winning "RTE Investigates: Greyhounds running for their lives" documentary last year, around 6,000 greyhounds are killed every year simply because they are not fast enough. It included shocking scenes of dogs being delivered to a knackery where they were shot in the head and dumped in a skip. One shot dog was seen writhing on the ground in agony as his merciless owner drove away. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYTb2qBjlMM

ACTION ALERT

Urge Thurles Credit Union to stop advertising at Thurles Park greyhound track.

Brian King, CEO
Thurles Credit Union
Email: info@thurlescu.ie; info@creditunion.ie
Tel: 0504 91700
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Thurles-Credit-Union/108595229184444