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  • URGENT – Lobby the Irish Government, write to your MEP, to Save Greyhounds From CHINA

    Irish Greyhounds to Barcelona 250 SOS GalgosIT’S ALL ABOUT MONEY – NOT ABOUT LIVING CREATURS! Urgent Reminder: to help the majority of greyhounds who are not lucky enough to be rescued. Are you a tax payer too? If so, you are helping to subsidise the Irish greyhound racing industry via the IMF bail-out

    Every letter counts from around the world!

    Worldwide protest letters needed now please and online petition link below where thousands of signatures are needed before it’s too late!

    Full details and important info below for everyone to read and take immediate action. Please keep all correspondence polite when writing to the Irish government and your MP/MEP. Please also send your emails straight to these people’s in boxes as well as the email addresses provided below.

    michael.noonan@oireachtas.irlgov.ie and enda.kenny@oireachtas.irlgov.ie

    The Irish national budget for 2012 is now under preparation for publication in December, so time is of the essence.

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  • Join the Campaign – Write to your MEP now!

    A reader in the UK has taken up the plight of the galgos in Spain with her MEP. Derek Vaughan, one of the Labour MEP’s for Wales has replied that he ‘was very concerned about the problem and has tabled a Written Question to the Commission to bring it to wider attention and see what can be done to help end this unnecessary suffering’.

    Derek Vaughan needs the support of as many other MEPs as possible. Please write to your MEP and ask them to support the Written Question. Below is a sample letter which is a variation of the one to the president of the European Commission already on Galgo News.

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