{"id":84003,"date":"2025-10-16T09:17:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T09:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/84003\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T09:17:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T09:17:09","slug":"paddy-power-to-shut-almost-60-shops-putting-250-jobs-at-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/84003\/","title":{"rendered":"Paddy Power to shut almost 60 shops putting 250 jobs at risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bookmaker Paddy Power is to close 57 betting shops across Ireland and the UK, with almost 250 staff facing redundancy.<\/p>\n<p>Parent company Flutter UKI confirmed its intention to shut 28 shops in Ireland, one in Northern Ireland and 28 in the UK.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">They said the decision was made following a review of its high street estate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The company said impacted workers will be offered redeployment opportunities where possible but the closures will lead to a number of job losses. The company said it is now consulting with staff and will provide support to those affected.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A Flutter UKI spokesperson said: \u201cIn light of increasing cost pressures and challenging market conditions, we can confirm that we will be closing 28 shops across Ireland within the next month.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">&#8220;We are continually reviewing our high street estate, but it remains a key part of our offer to customers, and we are seeking to innovate and invest where we can as we adapt to different customer trends and needs.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bookmaker Paddy Power is to close 57 betting shops across Ireland and the UK, with almost 250 staff&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84004,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,8531,43],"class_list":["post-84003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-munster-business","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84003","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=84003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}