Ireland’s largest independent betting company BoyleSports is understood to be in a sale process that may lead to a major shakeup of the Irish gambling market.
BoyleSports, which is headquartered in Dundalk, Co Louth, has 340 shops in Ireland and the UK and employs around 2,500 people. It also has a growing online business which is expanding into Europe, Africa and Canada.
Market sources said that the business, founded by entrepreneur John Boyle in 1982, would carry a price tag of hundreds of millions of euro.
Sources also said that the betting company has long been eyed as an attractive acquisition target but its sale has been viewed as being down to ‘timing and price’.
