SEVERAL places around the world are named Timaru; a port city in New Zealand’s South Island and then its Croom, Co Limerick namesake, where Fionnuala Moloney Carey and her husband James are on a mission to rehome retired greyhounds.

There was a public outcry after RTE Investigates aired its Greyhounds: Running For Their Lives programme about the fate of greyhounds in 2019, and again, this summer, over the Straffan horse slaughter debacle.