# Money from 'cruel' event turned down

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2010/02/05/money-039cruel039-event-turned-down/
- Published: 2010-02-05T11:55:28+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Money raised for Haiti at a coursing event has been refused by overseas development
charity Goal after protests by the Irish Council Against Blood Sports.

 that they would accept the donation.

Lisa O’Shea said that while Goal did not carry out this fundraising initiative itself,
the charity would be happy to accept the donation because she didn’t see “why people
in Haiti should suffer” just because some people objected to certain activities.

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The Irish Council Against Blood Sports had contacted Goal to protest about how the
money was raised.

Bookmaker Boylesports sponsored a series of charity bets at the national meeting
of the Irish Coursing Club in Clonmel, Co Tipperary, earlier this week which had
raised a “significant” sum.

Following the controversy the money will be given to a greyhound welfare charity.

DJ Histon, chief executive of the Irish Coursing Club, expressed disappointment 
and called on the Irish Council Against Blood Sports to replace the sum that Goal
would not now be receiving.

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