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Ireland’s Compulsive Addicts Number Increases in 2018

Ireland treats more gambling addicts in 2018 than any other year Changes to the industry in Ireland coming Estimated 18 months needed for the overhaul Ireland saw as many as 257 people being treated as compulsive gamblers in 2018, a 17% increase since 2017. New industry social measures are being prepared. More Compulsive Gambling Cases […]

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Irish Lawmakers to Revise Gambling Bills and Create Independent Auditor

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Ireland to Debate Own £2 FOBTs Limits

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Aspire Global Obtains Irish License for Sports Betting

The Irish market may have been in slight turbulence these past few weeks, but iGaming platform provider Aspire has all the intention to join the market – whether others intend to leave it or not. Aspiring to Sports Betting One of the world’s largest iGaming platform providers, Aspire Global, has announced that the company received […]

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Ireland Rethinks Stance on Betting Tax

Following multiple calls to reconsider, the Irish government is now going back to review the proposed 2% tax hike of the gambling and betting sector in the country. Opposition Against Government Tax Hikes on Gambling Ireland will now go ahead and reconsider its taxation of gambling and betting activities, sources have revealed. Previously, the Irish […]

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Sports

Ladbrokes Signals Withdrawal from Irish Market

The Irish gambling market is not the world’s largest. And now, it is threatened to get even smaller with Ladbrokes reportedly mulling a way out of it following the news of a new gambling tax Ladbrokes Calls It a Day Earlier this year, the government announced a tax hike that will target the gambling industry […]

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Paddy Power Betfair in the Wake of the Irish Taxation Law

Mere hours after the Irish government has announced that it would seek to increase the taxation on sports books and gambling companies in the country, Paddy Power Betfair already estimates dire consequences for its operations in Ireland. If you have been reading us, you will know that Ireland has just doubled its tax on the […]

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Ireland Takes Aim at Gambling Taxation

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Ireland Tightens the Noose on Unregulated Slots

Ireland’s stepping up of policy on gambling has yielded a tidy profit. The country has managed to rake up over $1 million by moving in decisively on unlicensed gambling machines. The news was reported by Paschal Donohoe, Minister for Finance. The proceedings come from the taxes levied in 2017 following a solid crackdown on unregulated […]

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President Higgins Shares His Thoughts on Gambling and Sports

In recent weeks, Ireland has been increasingly active insofar as its gambling and sports betting segments have been concerned. We know for a fact that Dublin has been taking the gung-ho approach on unregulated slot machines, asking casinos to comply with the law by the middle of August. Now, the country’s President, Michael D. Higgins, […]