L’ex capo di Paddy Power chiede un aumento delle tasse sul gioco d’azzardo per scoraggiare le scommesse dannose
https://www.thejournal.ie/paddy-power-gambling-tax-6859194-Oct2025/
di PoppedCork
L’ex capo di Paddy Power chiede un aumento delle tasse sul gioco d’azzardo per scoraggiare le scommesse dannose
https://www.thejournal.ie/paddy-power-gambling-tax-6859194-Oct2025/
di PoppedCork
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Don’t get me wrong good that someone with inside knowledge is speaking up. Industry critics are needed. But it doesn’t sit well when that voice only emerges after the person has stepped away with the rewards. If you have regrets and see harm, you should’ve fought it when you were in. Doing it afterwards just looks like damage control or sanitised legacy building.
You can raise the tax but people are still going to be spending the same amount
Betting is a seriously addictive habit, it destroys lives, I have no idea why the advertising standards come down hard on booze and smokes when it comes to sports advertising and sponsorship but betting companies are grand
I’ve seen him on a Prime Time thing years ago. He came across as genuinely worried about where the industry was going.
They mention shops closing but thats because it’s all online now. There are 5 slots/ casino places in less than a kilometre of one another where I am and another about 2km away which has a full car park most evenings. If that many are there how many are on their phones at home?
It used to be the lads betting on horses and going next door to the pub in-between races, now they target everyone, and have stuff to bet on 24/7
Ah feck off. After he’s made his fortune feeding off of vunerable people, comes out as “an insider”. More like attention seeker, get lost back to your golf.
The real regulation needed is a ban on advertising.
In one day, i was served gambling adds on Irish Times, rte, and youtube. There is serious money behind the advertising and totally normalises gambling.
Why do we always try to solve problems by making things more expensive? 1. Those who have an addiction will continue to practice their addiction, but will be left with less for housing and food. 2. It’s classist, it affects poor people more than the wealthy. 3. It pushes people to potentially more harmful addictions (see rising cocaine problem with our absurd alcohol prices). At least better than our silly minimum unit pricing in that it’s actually a tax so the government can do something with the proceeds, but still a bad approach
Maybe do something about the ridiculous targeted advertising gambling companies are getting away with?
Years ago, when the Paddy Power site went down, employees personally contacted gamblers to help them place bets, according to Tony O Reilly, aka Tony10.
When Tony was due to go on the Late Late show to discuss his book about his gambling addiction, it was cancelled at very short notice with no explanation.
When Ryan Tubridy left RTE in disgrace, who sponsored his show in the UK? Paddy Power, and Tubridy heavily implied more than once that bringing that sponsorship is what got him the Virgin Media gig.
https://m.independent.ie/opinion/comment/declan-lynch-strange-tale-of-ryan-tubridy-paddy-power-and-tony-10/a586720714.html