Gambling & the GAA

[Cloudy O'Ranieri]

But they do ignore it. There’s nothing to stop me topping up my Revolut card with my credit card and using Revolut to gamble.

I’m not advocating banning gambling either online or in person but the regulations are nowhere near enough. The 2024 Gambling Regulation Act was watered down considerably after much lobbying. Gambling advertising and free bet promotions are still allowed. There is no such thing as a free bet and anyone who suggests otherwise is highly naive.

Gamblers have to self exclude from online gambling if they have a problem. Who are we kidding here?

I think you're misunderstanding the term Source of Wealth/Funds there.

 

[Hallbopping]

I think you're misunderstanding the term Source of Wealth/Funds there.

But as you’ve accepted this mostly relates to AML.

The rest of my post is still true even if the controls have been tightened on credit card gambling.

 

[Cloudy O'Ranieri]

But as you’ve accepted this mostly relates to AML.

The rest of my post is still true even if the controls have been tightened on credit card gambling.

I've pointed out that it begins as AML but if the source is a credit facility, that becomes a safer/problem/responsible gambling issue.

Yes, the rest of your post is still true but, like any vice, the ultimate responsibility is with the individual. There's no getting away from that.

 

[Hallbopping]

I've pointed out that it begins as AML but if the source is a credit facility, that becomes a safer/problem/responsible gambling issue.

Yes, the rest of your post is still true but, like any vice, the ultimate responsibility is with the individual. There's no getting away from that.

There’s not but there’s also a responsibility that should be placed on the companies themselves. They sell a highly addictive product as do drinks companies and nicotine companies and should be regulated as such.

As I see it the companies have free rein on how they treat problem gambling and I don’t believe that this is the correct approach.

 

[Cloudy O'Ranieri]

There’s not but there’s also a responsibility that should be placed on the companies themselves. They sell a highly addictive product as do drinks companies and nicotine companies and should be regulated as such.

As I see it the companies have free rein on how they treat problem gambling and I don’t believe that this is the correct approach.

I can assure you that they don't have free reign. Regulations have tightened up big time in recent years. That's probably yet to be fully true from an Irish point of view but the GRAI will be an interesting development to keep an eye on.

 

[Hallbopping]

I can assure you that they don't have free rein. Regulations have tightened up big time in recent years. That's probably yet to be fully true from an Irish point of view but the GRAI will be an interesting development to keep an eye on.

I hope you are right.

 

[Cloudy O'Ranieri]

Free rain

 

[North Cork Star]

Cheltenham is on now next week. It is Christmas for the British and Irish bookies. I am friends with lads who are big into horse racing and big into gambling. They had me sucked in when I was younger but realised it was too stressful, while also addictive, so I happily backed out. I still put a fiver punt on here and there just for interest but I have eventually have come to enjoy horse racing and other sports without the need to win big money. I seen my friend put 900 Euro on a horse at a race track bookmaker at the Galway Races last summer. The horse came 7th place. 900 Euro down the drain just like that and that was just one race. Yet these lads would convince you that they can outsmart the bookies. It is sad really. Education on gambling should be a given.

 

[Cloudy O'Ranieri]

Cheltenham is on now next week. It is Christmas for the British and Irish bookies. I am friends with lads who are big into horse racing and big into gambling. They had me sucked in when I was younger but realised it was too stressful, while also addictive, so I happily backed out. I still put a fiver punt on here and there just for interest but I have eventually have come to enjoy horse racing and other sports without the need to win big money. I seen my friend put 900 Euro on a horse at a race track bookmaker at the Galway Races last summer. The horse came 7th place. 900 Euro down the drain just like that and that was just one race. Yet these lads would convince you that they can outsmart the bookies. It is sad really. Education on gambling should be a given.

That's the magic phrase. If the bets you're placing are too big for your affordability profile then you're in trouble. You're going to be stressed out of your tree, not to mention the financial and relationship damage.

It doesn't have to be like that though.

 

[El Guapo]

I think I'll always remember going to the Cork vs Mayo quarter final in 2011.

Some auld fella from North Cork was sitting directly in front of us and let it be known he had "A large sum of money on Cork" to win outright

I think he got shitty odds too 1/4 on or something.

And 30 secs later let it be known the big sum was €12k. He was a grand fella not boasting really but obviously deep in hock

That was the start of the James Horan Mayo adventure. they were definitely still shit then like

Miskella got a red card in the 2nd half and the colour drained from his face.

Full time he was like a dead man walking.

Poor Bollocks..