{"id":151564,"date":"2025-11-21T07:45:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T07:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/151564\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T07:45:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T07:45:10","slug":"local-senator-taken-to-task-over-greyhound-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/151564\/","title":{"rendered":"Local Senator taken to task over greyhound comments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s claimed the closure of Longford greyhound track has had serious negative economic impact on the county town.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s according local Senator, Paraic Brady, who was speaking in the Seanad about the funding of horse and greyhound racing in Budget 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Stadium management cited falling attendances and rising insurance costs for the closure in August 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Senator Brady the knock-on effect cannot be ignored:<\/p>\n<p>Following this, a greyhound advocacy group is calling on the Fine Gael representative to clarify his comments.<\/p>\n<p>Greyhound Action Ireland is calling on Senator Brady to provide evidence in support of that claim.<\/p>\n<p>Spokesperson, Nuala Donlon says transparency is needed:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s claimed the closure of Longford greyhound track has had serious negative economic impact on the county town.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":151565,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-151564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}