McNamee: I lost €200k gambling

Offaly footballer Niall McNamee has opened up further on the gambling addiction that almost destroyed his life.

The Rhode forward penned his fifth blog on the eve of the O’Byrne Cup since announcing his battle with gambling and admitted he has lost €200,000 to the illness.

“This time five years ago I was in Australia for the O’Byrne cup,” he wrote on http://niallmcnamee7.blogspot.ie.