Betting

People and space versus screens and machines: Why did one of the world’s largest betting shops open in Belfast?

Soapbox on September 11, 2015, 9:46 am

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Conor Johnston (@ConorJohnstonNI) asks Gary Toal of Toals Bookmakers why one of the biggest betting shops to be found anywhere outside the sports books of America was opened in Belfast, discovers a surprising twist in the history of betting shops in Northern Ireland and hears the view that the absence of legal Sunday betting here is a mystery to the modern punter… The launch in March of one of the largest betting shops in existence in the form of the …

There’s an election on. Do you fancy a bet?

Soapbox on May 6, 2015, 4:13 pm

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One of our long term commenters Tochais Soirai gives fellow readers a few last minute tips if you are thinking of having a last minute flutter on the election. Thinking of having a bet in the last days of the campaign? If you do, you’ll be part of a long tradition. The earliest organised political betting is often cited as the elections to the Great Council of Genoa in 1515 whilst in Britain political betting became very popular in the regency …