GAA players ‘embarrassed to reveal gambling addictions’

An inter-county manager who also works as an addiction counsellor says the true scale of the gambling problem in the GAA has not yet emerged as players are embarrassed to admit it.

Justin Campbell, the Roscommon and Connacht hurling manager, has appealed to GAA players with gambling problems to ask for help.

Campbell, who was nominated recently for the Galway hurling job and played senior for the county in the 1990s, works as an addiction counsellor in the Connacht region and sees the gambling problem at the coalface.