The offerings on social media by the chief executive of the Irish Horse Racing Body (IHRB), Darragh O’Loughlin, are usually retweets of Health Products Regulatory Authority messages, so both the content and the timing of one of his latest retweets were significant. Secretary General of the Irish Pharmacy Union from 2013 until April 2022, O’Loughlin’s Twitter bio describes him as a “newcomer to horseracing”, perhaps one of the reasons he got the nod for CEO of the IHRB. His unusual retweet was from the Oireachtas account promoting a session of the Public Accounts Committee with the IHRB scheduled for June…

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