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Sportego is a marketing and gaming development company based in Ireland. Their aim is to help better connect sports clubs with fans via improved engagement and interaction opportunities. Following on from an extremely insightful interview with Trevor Keane in September 2015, SBC News caught up with the founder and owner to discuss progress made during the back end of last year, …

County Kildare (Ireland) Punchestown Racecourse is set to undergo a €6.2 million renovation project, which will see work begin on a new €3.8 million grandstand, following 2016’s Punchestown Festival in April. The redevelopment project has been approved by the board of Horse Racing Ireland (HRI), who will contribute €2.5 million through a capital development grant. Punchestown Racecourse management will now …

Irish news sources have reported that former Republic of Ireland and Manchester United captain Roy Keane has settled out of court his dispute against Paddy Power regarding the infringement of his image rights used in the operators ‘Euro 2016 – Braveheart’ campaign. Keane had begun legal proceedings against the bookmaker in July, taking his claim to Ireland’s Commercial Court. The …

Australian bookmaker Tabcorp Holdings has teamed up with News UK, publisher of The Sun newspaper, to launch a new online wagering and gaming business in the UK and Irish markets. The business will be known as Sun Bets and will launch in 2016. The new business will bring together Tabcorp’s capability in global wagering with News UK’s vast customer base …

UK bookmaker Coral looks to expand its presence within the Irish sports betting market by announcing that it has agreed a three year sponsorship of Leopardstown Racecourse (Leinster County) January meets. The sponsorship comes following the approval of Coral’s Irish betting licence and marks the bookmakers first official Irish marketing partnership. Leopardstown’s is set to host the Coral.ie Hurdle Meeting …

Having launched a scathing attack on Ladbrokes £2.2 billion planned merger with Gala Coral, which saw the publication of saynotocoral.com, Irish financier Dermot Desmond is set to further argue his concerns regarding the merger at a Ladbrokes investor meeting to be held this Tuesday in London. Desmond, who holds a 2.8% company stake, and his public attack against the merger highlighted …

Sports betting exchange Matchbook (Matchbook.com) is the latest online betting operator to add Colossus Bets sports pools provisions to its platform. The Matchbook  betting exchange will now feature the giant sports betting  jackpots through its integration of Colossus Bets provisions, will allow Matchbook customers to participate in jackpots of up to £10,000,000 in prizes on offer. Matchbook governance stated that the partnership outlined …

Issuing an interim management statement for the period 1 July to 15 November, Paddy Power stated that trading was in-line with corporate expectations. Following a strong H1 2015 opening, the operator noted that sports results during the period were unfavourable, an impact seen throughout the betting industry. Paddy Power maintained a 9% group net revenue increase, supported by a 23 …

Bet365 was the standout bookmaker for bettingexpert.com’s community of tipsters during October. Of the 97,970 tips placed during the month, the Stoke-based bookmaker was selected as the preferred operator for a huge 19.1% of them, considerably higher than second placed Unibet which was selected 12.1% of the time. However Unibet was also far clear of third placed 188bet, which had …

Implementing corporate costs saving measures, embattled Zynga Inc is reported to have reduced its Irish workforce by 60%. Irish news sources report that the social gaming operator has made 22 Dublin staff redundant, as part of ongoing measures to reduce its global workforce by 18%. Struggling Zynga is aiming to reduce its operational costs, as the operator suffered declining revenues …