Holly Cairns has invited the Greyhound Board member who made "dehumanising and sexist" comments about her to a debate. "A member of the Irish Greyhound Board, Wayne McCarthy, referred to me as an 'ignorant little girl'. The opposite, they were all fact-based on research, much of which was done by the Irish Greyhound Board itself. I feel the need to put in on the Dáil record that a board member of a state organisation, in 2020, spoke about elected women in that way. The Minister for Agriculture Charlie McConalogue told the Dáil he would be writing to the chairman of the Irish Greyhound Board “expressing my repugnance” in relation to the comments made about Deputy Cairns.

Source: Irish Examiner December 01, 2020 14:14 UTC