Paddy Power-Betfair has poured cold water on suggestions the US betting market could substantially open up in the wake of Pennsylvania liberalising its gaming laws.

"We are sleeping with our clothes on in the van at night and our daughter is frightened and very afraid and scared."

Plans for the first Traveller horse grazing project of its kind in Cork have been reined in.

Paddy Power-Betfair is looking to grow further in the US, via acquisition, depending on how much the largely unregulated market further opens up and the level of opportunity that presents itself.

A special application has been made to Cork County Council for permission to develop a Traveller horse grazing project on the outskirts of Cork City.

Paddy Power-Betfair has made what analysts have called a “modest” bet on the US market by acquiring New York-based specialist betting firm Draft for a potential total price of $48m (€44m).

The ISPCA and the Department of Agriculture have backed plans for Cork’s first Traveller horse grazing project.

A Traveller family has vowed to resist any attempts to force their removal from a site in Cork City after a standoff with armed gardaí yesterday.

Taxpayers could face a €400,000 bill for providing 24-hour Garda security for builders who worked on a Traveller housing scheme.

Travellers living on one of Ireland’s worst halting sites have produced a hard-hitting documentary highlighting appalling living conditions.

It is has cost the State at least €300,000 to provide round-the-clock Garda security at a Traveller accommodation building project in Cork City.

Gardaí are providing round-the-clock security at a Traveller accommodation building site after claims of threats and intimidation directed at workers on the scheme.

GRAPHIC harvester Naomi Fein has been enjoying huge success of late, giving Munster’s leading companies storyboard accounts of seminars, workshops and other events to take home and share with their colleagues.

The taxpayer has had to fork out more than €500,000 to clean up illegal dumping from waste ground next to one of the country’s worst Traveller halting sites.

A large lagoon of water and raw untreated sewage poses a serious health and drowning risk to almost 100 children living alongside it, a damning report has warned.

Travellers living in one of the country’s worst halting sites have invited politicians to spend a night there to experience first-hand the appalling conditions they have to endure.

Several horses which were among 84 seized during a major animal welfare crackdown in Cork yesterday will have be put down.

The mother of Olympic boxer Kenneth Egan got down on her knees in a cemetery and begged him to give up drink, he revealed yesterday.

Olympic boxing hero Kenny Egan will speak openly at a workshop in Cork today about his recovery from addiction to porn, booze, and escort girls.

Rebecca Loverage has never used “tanning injections”, but she knows plenty of girls her own age who have.

Young women are putting their health at risk by using illegal tanning injections purchased on the internet, a Traveller organisation has warned.

A CALL was made yesterday for more Government support for anti-drugs programmes, as a major awareness initiative got underway in Cork.

A new TV deal with a US broadcaster will give Irish racing and punters a share of a €315m betting pool.

Ace American jockey Gary Stevens will finally retire from the saddle tomorrow night.

A PROPOSAL to open a pub for Travellers has been abandoned after the Traveller Visibility Group deemed it discriminatory.

TWO of Munster’s best beaches lost their Blue Flag status temporarily yesterday after a fleet of Travellers set up camp and littered the area.