Government vows to introduce urgent legislation to treat problem gambling 

One in 30 adults in Ireland, or 130,000 people, are problem gamblers.

The Government has said it is treating problem gambling with urgency after new research laid bare the scale of the issue in Ireland.

In the landmark paper, the ESRI said that 3.3% of the population meets the threshold of problem gambling, where they experience multiple negative behaviours, such as borrowing from others, to fund gambling.