Des Fegan

Back to culture: why greyhound racing was attacked

THE remarkable thing about the English ruling classes is their cultural blindness. Every country they colonised they endeavoured to destroy the culture, sometimes out of...

Anti-racing crowd are the most dangerous predators of all

THE world's greatest predator has invented the combustible engine, the computer, flown to the moon, and even produced all of the world's great literature. But,...

The rocky road to Sydney more evident after NSW greyhound ban

AS I drove back through New South Wales last Friday morning it was obvious to me that great hinterland outside the Sydney CBD has been...

Greyhound racing teetering on the edge of destruction

“THE space we stood around had been emptied into us to keep”, is how the Irish poet Seamus Heaney described the change that occurred in...