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Bookie rejects huge bet on next cardinal
By Simon Caldwell
29 August 2008
An irish bookmaker has turned down a bet of £40,000 on a priest to succeed Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor as the next Archbishop of Westminster.
Paddy Power refused to accept the bet on Mgr James Curry, the former private secretary to Cardinal Basil Hume.
A spokesman for Paddy Power said: "I can tell you that there is absolutely no way that we will take a bet like that where we would stand to lose £1.6 million. We don't know who the caller was or what he is up to but we know that his name isn't Benedict.
"You have to presume that everybody who has a bet on this market is in the know to some degree," he said.
"But we can't see any reason why James Curry."
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