Greyhound Welfare Courses At TUS Slammed As PR Stunt By Advocacy Group

In 2024 and 2025, many greyhounds were injured on Irish tracks.

Greyhound Action Ireland is condemning new greyhound welfare courses at the Technical University of the Shannon as a cynical PR exercise by Greyhound Racing Ireland.

The group believes the industry is responsible for large-scale overbreeding and the injury and death of hundreds of dogs every year.

Traceability data shows that of over 12 thousand 4 hundred greyhounds born in 2021, more than two-thirds of those remaining in Ireland are already dead or unaccounted for.

In 2024 and 2025, hundreds of greyhounds were injured on Irish tracks, with many put down by on-site vets. 

The advocacy group is arguing that no welfare course can fix an industry that is incompatible with animal welfare and sustained only by public funding. 
 

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