Best Irish Bookmakers
There are several renowned high street Irish bookies and most are now trying their hand at offering online betting. Irishness and betting are synonymous so it follows that Irish Bookmakers are among those challenging for market share in the, still relatively new, phenomenon of online bookies.
Guide to Irish Bookies
Paddy Power were first to market and are reaping the rewards of their boldness, heading the market with more than 4 times the business of all other Irish bookmakers combined.
Boylesports, with their impressive retail estate of 140 shops, have made some impressive online strides in recent years and will be hoping that a new website helps them to grow their market share.
Celtic Bookmakers, have the next biggest in terms of retail estate but they have no online offering worth speaking of; preferring to rely on their resource heavy call centre.
BetPack.com represents a joint effort by bookmakers Tully, Bambury, Hacketts, Mulholland, Terry Rogers and Track to compete with the other 2 main players in the market. They have just recently set up a white label website supplied by British bookmaker, Stan James. Marketing thus far has been done through the shops only but time will tell if they are willing to splash a bit more of the cash to really get their teeth into a hyper competitive market.
BetChronicle.com is the online representation for Chronicle bookmakers and act more as a Betdaq tracker rather than a traditional fixed odds bookmaker. Both Betdaq and Chronicle are owned by a certain Mr Dermot Desmond.
Betting with Irish Bookies
If you are new to online betting then we suggest that you sign up to Irish bookies, or any bookmaker, who is willing to offer you the best deal in terms of free bets for signing up. It is often advantageous to open several accounts so that you can shop around for the best odds available.
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