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New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume IX, Issue 462, 1 June 1899, Page 16

We race most days a week (writes Sydney Truth'), and when Lillie Bridge is resurrected we shall race o’nights as well ; but beyond the buses and the harbour boats we do not race on Sundays as yet. We always knew, of course, that the best French racing takes place on Sunday afternoons, also that in all foreign Catholic countries the afternoon of the first day in the week is devoted to bull-fights, racing, shooting matches and dozens of of other out door sports. But we did not know that horce-racing was an established Sabbath sport near Dublin. But it is, or rather up till six weeks ago, was. It appears there is a Dublin syndicate known as the City and Suburban Racecourse and Amusement Grounds Company ; and at the Syndicate’s Grounds racing has been in full swing on Sundays. Of course the never-touch-it-and-be-miserable mob have been squirming at the business, and at last they have kicked. Headed by one Dewar, no relation to the whisky man, an injunction was applied for against the running of gee-gees on the Sabbath. The matter was carefully threshed out in the Vice-Chancellor’s Court and the injunction was granted ; the ruling being that defendants were to he restrained from holding horse races (sounds like catching hold doesn’t it ?) on Sundays, or otherwise disturbing the quiet and comfortable enjoyment of the inhabitants of the neighborhood, and interfering with the celebration of divine service, and also from obstructing the streets leading to the racecourse. So there is no more Sabbath racing in Dublin. Which of course is another injustice to Ireland.