Paddy Power is Ireland’s biggest bookmaker, by a large margin. They’re known for their fabulous offers, especially their ‘Money Back’ offers. These offers include punters getting their money back if a certain outcome develops. They offer betting on most sporting events, and they also run special offers on all of those sports.
Founded in 1988, Paddy Power was formed by three Irish bookmakers and they now have around 191 high street shops in Ireland. Their online site is one of the best available, as again it has offers galore to tempt the punter to take a chance. Their popularity was enhanced in 2010 when they refunded all bets on F1 racing driver Felipe Massa. It came after Massa followed out team orders and basically robbed the punters dry. Paddy Power noticed the anger this caused between gamblers and announced they were to, honourably, refund all losing bets on the driver.
They sponsor Swansea City who have now achieved Premier League status and so it’s very hard to get away from the green of Paddy Power. Their online site is easy to work around and so if anybody fancies a bet, they would find odds for it easily on their website. Controversially, they once offered odds on President Barack Obama being assassinated, which naturally didn’t go down too well with many authorised personnel. Paddy Power are becoming a very big force in the bookmaking industry, and that’s a very good achievement with them only being 23 years in existence.
