Dungarvan Animal Matters and Welfare Information

08/04/2026

A coincidence re the Dungarvan seals…?

08/04/2026

Campaign just started in the Uk. Over 80% of greyhounds racing in the Uk are Irish dogs.

08/04/2026

The voluntary animal welfare sector in Ireland desperately needs financial public support. Not the corporate organisation that operates office hours, and cherry picks at the best of times - but the voluntary sector that operates 365 24/7 to assist with emergency issues.

Please, choose your local or preferred voluntary group and if possible donate maybe even 5e pm.

If the voluntary animal welfare sector goes, so too does any meaningful help for the animals. The pounds will start killing en masse again, and the country will revert back into the late 90s when thousands of dogs were being killed in pounds.

I’m not aware that the Ispca or t/a Nspca takes any dogs from pounds at all. Imagine, what will happen if the voluntary sector rescues go under?!
The department of agriculture, I am reliably informed, has carried out a cost savings exercise ie how it can screw rescues to the wall. To the department would much prefer to just deal with the one corporate organisation and be done with the voluntary sector ie, all money to go to just one organisation. This was warned about back in 2019, few took heed.

Please, support local animal welfare groups.

08/04/2026

It is, in fact, the Department of Justice that should be rallied about the pathetic sentences handed down by the judiciary re even the most heinous animal cruelty cases.

These offenders know that they will receive a mere stern lecture about their behavior, but they also know that they will walk away from the Court with a pathetic fine and, maybe, a suspended sentence.

There are no ands, buts, or maybes, animal abuse and cruelty is not taken seriously in this country.

There are, to the best of my knowledge, still only 9 animal welfare inspectors who cover just 17 counties. The Dspca t/a Nspca received over 2m in government funding grants alone for 2026. It’s no more ‘national’ than a certain almost nationwide store. It reports on calls received, not necessarily actioned. 9 people, no matter how good they are or how well intentioned, can possibly deal with the situation.

The government needs to either a) allow reputable rescues to operate as Authorized Officers or b) establish a national animal welfare unit. One thing is certain, action is required urgently because the animal abusers are getting a free pass, and that has to stop.

💔 “People feel nothing will be done” — growing anger over animal cruelty in Tipperary

Concerns are rising across Tipperary as recent raids and heartbreaking incidents expose a deeper, ongoing problem with animal welfare. 🐾 Many locals say neglect and cruelty cases are becoming more visible — yet accountability still feels out of reach.

Authorities have carried out seizures and investigations, uncovering animals kept in poor and distressing conditions. Despite this, frustration is building among residents who believe penalties are too weak and enforcement isn’t strong enough. 😔
Read more here: https://www.ireland-live.ie/news/nenagh-live/2054823/people-feel-nothing-will-be-done-animal-welfare-concerns-grow-in-tipperary.html

Some say the system is failing vulnerable animals, with a sense that offenders often face little consequence. This has led to a growing feeling of helplessness — and anger — within the community.

🐑 From neglected livestock to abandoned animals, these cases highlight a harsh reality: without stronger action, cruelty continues.

📢 People are now calling for stricter enforcement, tougher penalties, and real change to protect animals across the county.

👉 Stand up for the voiceless. Become an Animal Rebel with the Party for Animal Welfare (PAW). Change starts with us. 🐾🔥: https://www.ipaw.ie/join

08/04/2026

What nonsense is this?
It just puts a target on the seals heads, all for pathetic attention seeking purposes. It’s disgraceful.

A local volunteer has called for a statue to celebrate the "surfing seals" of the Waterford town.

08/04/2026

Want a laugh? Then read this…

Ruth Coppinger’s Prime Time Attack on Greyhound Racing: Fact-Checking the LiesIn last week’s RTE Prime Time special “Gone to the Dogs"

Far Left Solidarity TD Ruth Coppinger launched yet another politically motivated and agenda laden assault on Ireland’s greyhound racing industry. She branded it “cruel and barbaric,” demanded an immediate ban, and claimed taxpayers are wasting €20 million a year propping up a dying sport responsible for hundreds of dog deaths.
Her performance was nothing but fake political theater as she lied through her teeth with the actual facts telling a very different story.
Coppinger isn’t just wrong, she’s deliberately misleading the public about one of Ireland’s most successful, well-regulated rural abd urban industries.

Let’s set the record straight with the actual numbers.
Its a Major Economic Driver, Not a Taxpayer Drain
According to an independent economic report commissioned by Greyhound Racing Ireland, the sector generates €132 million in annual economic activity and supports over 4,150 full-time and part-time jobs — with more than 6,200 active owners benefiting directly.
That’s thousands of families across Ireland earning a living from breeding, training, track operations, veterinary care, and hospitality.
Wages and related spending inject over €103 million back into local economies every year.

Attendance remains strong — 358,000 patrons enjoyed live racing in 2024 alone , proving the sport still delivers real entertainment value to especially working-class communities who Coppinger claims to be the vanguard of.

Coppinger’s claim that the €19–20 million annual allocation from the Horse & Greyhound Racing Fund is “pure subsidy” ignores the massive return on investment.
This isn’t corporate welfare, t’s smart support for a home-grown industry that creates jobs where they’re needed most.
World Class Welfare Standards The Numbers Don’t Lie
Coppinger repeatedly cites inflated death and injury figures to paint a picture of systemic cruelty.
The reality, straight from Greyhound Racing Ireland’s 2025 track data, is starkly different: 99.63% of the 88,126 greyhounds that entered races last year came off the track completely uninjured.
The injury rate sits at just 0.37% among the lowest of any professional animal sport.
Welfare inspections achieved 95.55% compliance with strict Code of Practice standards.

Over 1,200 retired greyhounds were successfully rehomed in 2025 through the Irish Retired Greyhound Trust and partner organisations.

Greyhounds are animwl athletes that love to run its what they crave and are born for.
They receive round the clock veterinary care, state of the art nutrition, and dedicated retirement programmes. Independent sampling of thousands of dogs shows near-perfect integrity and health compliance.
The industry has invested millions in welfare far more than Coppinger’s narrative admits.
Why the Attack?
Coppinger and her allies aren’t interested in facts or the thousands of Working Irish families who rely on this sport.
They want to import Scotland and Wales’ misguided bans and kill off a working class tradition that has thrived here for generations and is embedded in Working Class and Rural Culture While they chase headlines, real people lilrbreeders in Tipperary, trainers in Cork, families at tracks from Limerick to Galway get on with the job of delivering excitement, jobs, and economic value. While the Dublin man enjoys a race with a pint in the hopes if winning afew quid..

Greyhound racing isn’t perfect, but it is heavily regulated, economically vital, and genuinely loved by those who participate in it.
Ruth Coppinger’s Prime Time appearance wasn’t balanced journalism it was propaganda by the Woke Liberal loons who now run RTÉ.

The Irish public deserves the truth, this industry is worth defending, and the numbers prove it.

08/04/2026

Martin Heydon taking animal welfare ‘seriously’…

Almost zero enforcement of long standing laws, a token gesture of animal welfare officers that should be 100 times more and employed by the government directly.
Horses being beaten up and down fuel carriageways bleeding and broken, badgers being slowly strangled even though the evidence is clear on the subject of TB, fox hunting, live exports to war zones and countries with no welfare at slaughter.

He really has some neck claiming that he takes animal welfare seriously.

07/04/2026

End it Now!!

No more Irish Funding would;
End Irish Breeding or Racing
Limit Irish Greyhounds Exported
Brings a phased end to English Greyhound Racing

Result = No More Greyhound Racing Cruelty

Share this post now to support an end to funding and an end to Greyhound Racing in Ireland and England

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07/04/2026

Australian, but greyhound racing is greyhound racing…

Industry participants often claim that you can’t know what’s really going on in greyhound racing unless you work directly within the industry.

But what about people who have spoken out after working inside the industry or observing it first hand.

The latest blog from Warren Young looks at three people who had no vested interest in speaking out against greyhound racing. Unlike the participants who defend it and profit from gambling and government money.

Link to blog in the comments.

06/04/2026

This weekend has, yet again, shown that it’s the voluntary animal welfare sector that is available 24/7 365.

Bizarrely, and quite inexplicably, the government (via the DAFM) decided that just one organisation would receive almost 2.5 million euros in funding. This organisation doesn’t operate a service after 5pm weekdays, not at all at weekends or holidays and is, in fact, quite wealthy anyway.

Meanwhile, in the real world, there are any number of small-medium size groups that will attend to emergency situations no matter what time or day of the week it is. Most received insulting funding when compared to their outlay - some were even cut without explanation. All decided by jumped up, over paid, pen pushers who would likely not know one end of an animal to the other.

The DAFM has been, I am reliably informed, conducting a cost cutting exercise, ie, not for the greyhound racing industry rather for the already pathetically funded rescues. It might appear that the DAFM would much prefer that the voluntary animal welfare sector would cease to exist. More money to prop up and provide life support for greyhound racing perhaps is the plan? Or just hand it all over to just one corporate organisation and let them get on with it?