The competition and consumer watchdog is seeking High Court orders against the Irish Bookmakers Association as part of a criminal probe into alleged anti-competitive activity. The Competition and Consumer Protection Commission wants the gambling lobby group and its chair Sharon Byrne to disclose potentially privileged material to assist in its nascent investigation, the details of which have not yet been publicly disclosed. The probe is not understood to involve Byrne or the Bookmakers Association directly, and the application is procedural. While the CCPC has been known to issue press releases detailing its inquiries into alleged criminal breaches of competition law, in…

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