Full coverage: Gambling

The co-founder of FitzBet will have a pitch on the rails at next week's festival, after paying £325,000 for the privilege, but it's small beer in his expanding operation. In a rare interview, he opens up about the business of betting.

The unprecedented set of regulations imposed on betting and its promotion was passed this Wednesday following equally exceptional efforts to influence its final shape, shown in the back-and-forth between industry, charities, and officials.

Technology companies are valued on the basis of their unit economics. Those of the gambling giant could be turning a corner.

David Power, a co-founder of Paddy Power, passed away this week. Here, the company's former chairman Fintan Drury recalls a warm and thoughtful man who wore achievement, especially business or financial success, so lightly that he barely wore it at all. 

Fanatics acquired the company that owned tech developed by Irish firm Banach to fuel expansion in US sports betting, all while pushing Banach’s founder to its executive leadership.

Thomas Byrne, the Minister of State for Sport, and Elena Pecos, the head of Decathlon Ireland, recently swapped notes on the business of sport – from the French retailer's move into Clery's to funding for national facilities.

Propelled by the US and its international operations, Flutter is now the world’s second-biggest gaming company. That leaves no room for a Dublin listing.

The Japanese conglomerate Sega Sammy has acquired Gan for $86.7 million. Gan's US expedition is drawing to an end.

While the US dominates Ireland's multinational investment scene, UK investors used to lead acquisitions in the domestic Irish economy. They are being replaced by those from the continent.

Gan has announced a strategic review – the first step in a possible sale of the business. Three years after the company escaped the London market, at least it can say it made a go of it.