Here in the UK, the main gambling was always on the football pools since the 1920s with horse racing betting confined to racecourse bookmakers. Betting shops would not open here until 1961, so the Irish Sweepstakes was a big thing.
looking back and the political State of the country then and where it's at now, I have to say as an Irishman I am truly ashamed. I lay the blame at parochial politics.
Dr Noël Brown: a visionary and maverick. If he just wasn't so strong-willed, maybe Ireland would have a British-like NHS.
Never realized how massive and famous, the Irish sweepstakes were.
Here in the UK, the main gambling was always on the football pools since the 1920s with horse racing betting confined to racecourse bookmakers. Betting shops would not open here until 1961, so the Irish Sweepstakes was a big thing.
Finished in 1986.
Anybody know when this programme was first aired on RTE?
looking back and the political State of the country then and where it's at now, I have to say as an Irishman I am truly ashamed. I lay the blame at parochial politics.