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Fri 02 Feb 2010Goal loses out over source of donation
THE CHARITY Goal has lost a donation towards its efforts for victims of the Haiti earthquake because animal rights campaigners objected to the source of the funding.
The money will instead be given to a greyhound welfare charity. Bookmaker Boylesports sponsored a series of charity bets at the national meeting of the Irish Coursing Club in Clonmel, Co Tipperary, earlier this week.
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