McConville: One player on every county panel hooked on gambling

Oisín McConville has made a startling claim that at least one player on every county panel in Ireland is battling gambling addiction.

The former Armagh footballer came out as a gambling addict himself in 2007 and is now working as a counsellor to help others with the same problems.

He is at the coalface of an issue he describes as ‘massive’ and insists the Gaelic Players Association (GPA) chief Dessie Farrell’s revelation that three top players booked in for treatment in the last year alone is ‘hugely conservative’.