Gambling in the GAA: ‘I could go to bed and I could cry myself to sleep’

The devastating impact of addictive gambling in Tipperary’s GAA has been revealed in a series of interviews to be broadcast on local radio today.

Speaking to Tipperary Mid-West Radio’s Stevie O’Donnell, 2006 All-Ireland minor hurling winner Timmy Dalton, his Arravale Rovers club-mate and former county minor footballer Brian Glasheen and Tadhg Lonergan of Kilsheelan-Kilcash have given harrowing accounts of their addictions.

Glasheen’s story is a particularly troubling one after he hit the skids during his 20s between 2003 and ’08. At one stage, he feigned sickness so he could explain why he wasn’t eating.