{"id":457292,"date":"2026-05-19T21:28:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T21:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/457292\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T21:28:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T21:28:16","slug":"news-ireland-probes-suspicious-polymarket-bets-on-dublin-by-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/457292\/","title":{"rendered":"NEWS: Ireland probes suspicious Polymarket bets on Dublin by-election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By CARLO BOFFA, EU Correspondent Irish authorities are to probe \u201csuspicious bets\u201d placed on Polymarket on the outcome of local ballots, Finance Minister Simon Harris said. His comments came after reports that millions of euros were poured into the betting platform ahead of the Dublin Central by-election on Friday. \u201cThe developments that we have seen\u2026 <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/phone-tablet-desktop.png\" alt=\"AML Intelligence\"\/><br \/>\nSubscribe now to have unlimited access<\/p>\n<p class=\"amlpmp-content-message__description\">With our membership subscription, you will have unlimited access to the AML Intelligence site, updated daily with the latest analysis, opinion, and breaking news across the sector, newsletter delivered twice per week, access to our Global Bank Fines &amp; Penalties database, free access to Boardroom Series and more!<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"amlpmp-content-message__button amlpmp-content-message__button--primary\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amlintelligence.com\/membership-account\/membership-levels\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">View subscription options<\/a><a class=\"amlpmp-content-message__button amlpmp-content-message__button--transparent\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amlintelligence.com\/login\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">If you have an account, log in<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By CARLO BOFFA, EU Correspondent Irish authorities are to probe \u201csuspicious bets\u201d placed on Polymarket on the outcome&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":457293,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[32984,61,60,43,1650,59650,70],"class_list":["post-457292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-betting","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-polymarket","tag-simon-harris"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/457293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}