These are bookmakers, hard at work at the Phoenix Park racecourse in 1985. Tea boxes are used for stands by Bookmakers at the races at the Phoenix Park racecourse on June 3rd, 1985. It re-opened in 1983, which was the year U2 played Sunday Bloody Sunday to an adoring crowd of 2,000 at the Phoenix Park. These and other Irish Times images can be purchased from: irishtimes.com/photosales. A book, The Times We Lived In, with more than 100 photographs and commentary by Arminta Wallace, published by Irish Times Books, is available fromirishtimes.com and from bookshops, priced at €19.99.

Source: The Irish Times March 31, 2018 03:56 UTC