Ireland to ban internet gambling?

[scallywag76]

Now I understand your viewpoint. On a similar tack, I presume that Victor Chandler is operating in a similar fashion with his Gibraltar operation?

[Cav]

Exactly scallywag. I found VC’s comments on C4 during Cheltenham re the danger to UK horseracing if BBC coverage is lost a bit hard to swallow given he pioneered the levy dodging scam that is offshore betting in the first place.

[scallywag76]

With respect to Paddy Power, specifically, Ireland and the Island are signatories to a tax agreement that might offer a glimmer of hope, although I’m not sure how easy it would be to ascertain how much of their revenue is generated from betting on horse racing in Ireland. The danger would be, perhaps, that PP would just up sticks and relocate elsewhere – a problem that we face here now in other areas of business, having been given a clean bill of health at G20. White definitely isn’t the new black, when it comes to the finance sector.

I wonder how easy it would be to block access to specific sites, as opposed to a complete ban on internet betting? Organisations with offshore centres who are engaged in online betting could be given a fixed length of time in which to sign up to an agreement that would see them contribute a levy to the sport. Failure to do so would see access to their websites blocked. Sounds like a lot of work would be involved initially and I’ve no idea what the legal implications would be but, from a moral standpoint, is does seem wrong that profit is being made from a product without any contribution being made to the health and development of that product.

[Aristo]

I was being ironic scallywag, (something completely lost on you obviously)

Obviously. The attempt didn’t leap off the page and it came across, to me at least, as a cheap shot at the Island due to it’s association with some online gambling outfits. We take enough ill-informed comment and criticism as it is.

However, if your comment wasn’t intended in that spirit, I apologise for my respsonse.

Cheap shot? if anyone knows about cheap shots it’s you.

[scallywag76]

Whatever, Walter.

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