Not in the UK. A lurcher is a first or second generation cross between a sight hound of any kind and a sheepdog. I am told the ideal mix is three-quarters sight-hound and one quarter sheepdog.

Irish Wolfhounds are sight hounds and can be (but are very rarely) used for breeding lurchers. They are lazy beasts and would not make a good poacher's dog, which is what the lurcher actually was bred for. The collie was added for brains, with which sighthounds are not heavily endowed.