Dr. David McGrath:

I have no issue with the people in Limerick and with them being professional. It is a question of whether they are allowed to do their job or not. That is really important. I am sure they are excellent at their job; they are technically excellent people I am sure. They have recently purchased new equipment. One of the major issues was that the previous equipment they had could not test for a particular type of anabolic steroid, oil-based stanozolol. Certain samples that went to Limerick could be found negative because they could not be tested for the steroid.

Irish dogs were going to England to run in big competitions, particularly the English Derby and were failing the test for stanozolol, which was very disquieting in Ireland. People were running their dogs in big competitions on Saturday night in Shelbourne Park against these dogs and then those dogs were going to run in England in the English Derby. They were passing their tests when running in Shelbourne Park on a Saturday night, and then going to Wimbledon and failing. That did not inspire confidence in the industry here and led the GBGB to give a caveat emptorwarning to people to be wary about buying dogs from Ireland that were testing positive in the UK while testing negative at home.