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[Irish Times] , Slattery, Laura Generation gamble: the invisible addiction crisis gripping Ireland’s teenagers. (03 May 2025)

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State’s new gambling regulator has started work, but experts still fear that gambling is becoming ingrained at younger ages.

It’s the “bookie in your pocket” or the “casino in your hand” – the opportunity to gamble that follows us everywhere our mobile devices do from bed to desk to toilet, never closing its doors. The unfettered growth in popularity of online gambling over the past decade has brought with it a deepening concern that problem gambling has become a largely invisible health crisis, marked by secrecy and stigma...

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