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

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 …

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