No surprise that 40,000 Irish people have gambling addiction

Gambling on sport is massive business, and it is now understood that Irish people gamble more than €5 billion every year — that equates to €10,000 every minute. Small wonder there are an estimated 40,000 Irish people who have a gambling addiction, writes Paul Rouse

Will Dublin beat Mayo? Or will Mayo beat Dublin? Or what odds another draw? From the minute the final whistle blew in the drawn All-Ireland final speculation on the likely outcome of the replay has ebbed and flowed on tides of speculation.

There has been a lot of fun in it, but cliché has rarely been too far from the surface in this speculation: ‘Mayo missed their chance’, ‘Dublin can’t be as bad again’, and so on. And on.