Over a quarter of Irish 16-year-olds gambling for money

Boys were found to exhibit different gambling behaviours than girls, and they had much higher odds of excessive gambling, the report found. Picture: John Stillwell/PA

More than a quarter of Irish 16-year-old boys are gambling for money and many of them are struggling to control it, feel they need to bet more money or are lying about how much they are gambling.

That is according to a survey of almost 2,000 Irish 16 year-old boys and girls collected through the European School Survey Project on Alcohol and Other Drugs (ESPAD).