Business of Sport: Betting on a €12m catastrophe - how Punchestown covered Covid

Racecourse was only Irish sports entity to take out Covid-protection through event cancellation policies, before the true scale of the virus became evident
Business of Sport: Betting on a €12m catastrophe - how Punchestown covered Covid

REBOUND: The Punchestown festival

AS THE first stories emerged from Wuhan in the early New Year of 2020, Punchestown Racecourse took a punt on the pandemic.

In doing so it became the one and only Irish sports organisation to take out Covid-protection through event cancellation policies, before the true scale of the virus became evident.

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