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A RUNNER WHO took part in a half-marathon event at Dublin’s Phoenix Park today is recovering in hospital, after he suffered a cardiac arrest at the finish line.
Two Dublin Fire Brigade paramedics — one retired, one off-duty — who were also taking part in the race came to the man’s aid, and administered CPR.
Members of the St. John’s Ambulance arrived and also provided assistance. The man’s pulse returned after he was treated with a defibrillator, and he was then taken to hospital.
He’s being treated at St James’s Hospital, and is said to be making a good recovery this evening.
Around 2,000 people took part in the charity race at the Dublin park today, organised to raise funds for the Laura Lynn Children’s Hospice.
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Is it just in winnings? If so I’ve no need to worry.
The tax in a bricks and mortar bookies is on the amount wagered, to be fair if it was on the winnings you could end out paying a lot of money in tax! I’d imagine it would be the same for an online tax…
This tax will not help Irish or UK bookmakers to compete with online bookmakers. The reason that online bookmakers are more popular than the likes of Paddy Power and Ladbrokes is because the bigger online Asian bookmakers like Pinnacle or SBObet do not limit players when they win.
Some people that I know that used to place 50 euro football bets with Paddy Power have had their stakes limited to 50 cents per bet just because they had a few winning weeks and looked like they knew what they were doing.
Yet if these same bookmakers see a problem gambler losing hundreds or thousands every day of the week then they are welcomed with open arms.
Paddy Power and their ilk will not gain the custom of players who play with the big Asian bookmakers due to this tax because Paddy Power does not want to take bets from this type of player anyway (hence the limits on their accounts).
So it looks like another money grab again by this greedy government.
Look at the cards there is a 3 club’s 5 Spades 8 clubs and a Queen Clubs.
Reduce the card values 3+5+8+1+0 = 17
“Ultimate” in Ordinal = 101 = 11 in common = 606 = 66 when you drop the Zeros.
“Poker” = 65 = 6+5 = 11___ “Pot” in Jewish = 210 = 21 (7+7+7)__ $ 2.88 = 2+8+8 =18 (6+6+6)
The Letter “U” is the 21st Letter of the alphabet _21 (7+7+7)
Frank I sincerely hope your taking the pi$$ ‘cos if you believe that nonsense you’re spouting, you can’t be a well man.
Dermot Lane_You sound like a sore loser..
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Tax on betting used to be 10% in the 80s. 1% isn’t going to kill anybody, yet I’m sure on- line gambling has….
Actually 1% is way too low.
Oh great! Another tax!
Money grabbing government can’t leave anything alone………
How dare they tax things.
Everything ……….
Fairness to bookies?rubbish, another way to squeeze punters out of a few quid,is the minister going to use that money to help chronic gamblers get the help that need?
Implementing a new tax, fair enough. But for what reason?
Apparently it’s to be used to create more jobs, go towards local communities, keep the street lighting on, keep local libraries, swimming pools and kiddies playgrounds open.
Ahh no hang on…wait a second…that’s a lie.
For Fine Gael to bet against themselves in the next general election.
Maybe this explains the need for yet another new tax!
Taxpayers money paid to Irish Political Parties since the crash in 2008 …..
Fine Gael – €27 million in the last 5 yrs
Fianna Fail – €18 million in the last 5 yrs
Labour – €17 million in the last 5 yrs
I can’t help noticing that there’s a party missing from that list. Would it be the one which also has MPs in Westminster who never go but have managed to rack up millions of pounds of expenses? Or the one which claims expenses for renting properties in Northern Ireland, but then doesn’t pay the rent?
@Emily: Happy to publish the figures if I had them. All Political Parties are Private Clubs … that pass laws in their own interest and those of their funders.
Nothing to stop you joining any political party you want.
You can just picture a typical cabinet meeting:
Em, Enda, we have a problem with (insert random problem here, water, booze, gambling, environmental). What are we going to do?
Enda sits back in the chair, smiling. Relax lads, there is no problem that can’t be fixed by more tax. Especially the lads who have nothing. You can always get more out of them.
Thanks Enda, you’re right.
Enda makes sure they know they’ll have to defend it with the electorate, because Enda doesn’t argue anything in public.
People who “have nothing” shouldn’t really be gambling.
But they might win enough to then have something. They just have to gamble *really* smart and *really* hard. Only pick things that are definitely going to happen but which have long odds
I hate this government with a passion. Most useless shower of C…
Will spread betting be impacted ??
Hahaha. Good point. You can bet your ass it won’t be.
They are going as far as to demand tax when a cow answers the call of a wild burrito because it contains methan gas or co2 which is harmful for the environment.
They wanted 13 euro per cow , the Farmers association threatened to move all stock to Argentina. As the average person toots 14 times per day , guess who’s next.
You should be taxed for talking through your hole
Good idea actually , I ‘ll come by your place later to collect.
How much credit card debt could be linked to online gambling. All bookies are parasites.
I bet you it won’t happen
I’ll have a 5 er on that tax free please
Online gambling should just be banned plain and simple, gambling is an addicton which can destroy a family very quickly, and infact an individual and both can lead to suicide, and to have this sort of thing at your finger tips is like an alcoholic living in a brewery
Absolute rubbish,a gambler will spend all day in the bookies if online was banned,it’s like telling an alcoholic he can only drink in pub hours,stupidest comment of the week so far
Trixy, he still has to go to the offy or bookies, online you just roll over in your bed, stroll through the park, pick up you kids from school and bang out comes your phone another tenner gone, it’s so easy it’s sickening
So ban gambling in the country,why should people who don’t abuse gambling be punished for the few who do,it’s easy to lose money gambling but not every gambler loses,some actually make a few extra quid from the couch,I do agree if you have an addiction then online is an easy way to lose everything but so is heroin,a gambling addict will fined something to bet on at anytime
Gambling isn’t the problem, addiction is. Prohibition doesn’t work. Online gambling definitely needs proper regulation and this won’t happen.If it took the government 5 years to tax the industry it i don’t think they have a chance of properly regulating it. Bookies are too cute. This government certainly isn’t.
Who said ban gambling altogether???? Just online should be the rest at least get people out and provide jobs, where as an online casino is just a big computer in a basement sucking bank accounts dry, and infact I enjoy the odd flutter myself so I’d be shooting myself in the foot if ALL gambling was banned, but I’ve SEEN what a slot machine or a poker table in your pocket can do first hand…. too many times!
And Trixy, heroin is a physical addiction which thankfully you can’t download (at the moment) so that arguments mute
Except for the fact there are employed people in Ireland working in online gambling services as is.
Banning, most hospital block gambling sites. You’re spot on.
Tricky, I think The Journal , in the weekly rating of comments , should also show the most disliked comments.
Absolutely I’m all for it,I bet you a fiver you’ll get more red thumbs
What’s funny is they make out that they are introducing this to help bookies stores compete with online gambling (which it will), but clearly top priority is more money money money. Does that mean there will be extra cash to reduce USC or will it be another crutch for IW Mr. Minister?
The rise in Bitcoin sports books mean that online gambling is here to stay whether the government like it or not. Online bookmakers like Nitrogen Sports or Anonibet allow players to deposit and withdraw funds in bitcoin at really low cost.
In fact some of the books like Nitrogen do not even require players to register an account and so the whole process is completely anonymous. I would like to see how Enda and Co will be able to tax that.
And before anyone points out the volatility of bitcoin etc etc….. It is only used to transfer funds which can immediately be converted to any currency instantly.
Speaking of Gambling. …….UK’s Last Saturday’s Lotto was also encoded with a secret message.
Feb 7th Winning Numbers = 3 6 15 17 18 35 22 ….Reduced 3+6+1+7+1+8+3+5+2+2 = 44
Jackpot was £7,795,272…….Reduced 7+7+9+5+2+7+2= 39 (13+13+13)
http://www.lottery.co.uk/results/lotto-results.asp
Barack Obama is the 44th President also the word BEAST is mentioned 44 times in the book of Revelation. The Vatican sits on 44 Hectares. The Word “HOPE” Synonymous withh Barack Obama’s first Election campaign has an ordinal gematria value of “44″
The factors of the number 39 (13+13+13) is HEAVILY associated with the Occult and the Antichrist. It also ties in with Revelation 13 vs 18.
Genesis 13 vs 13 has 13 encoded in the verse THREE TIMES in the KIng James version when you include the number of words in it ……
Mornin’ Frank
Vannin_Hi Vannin…Good After Noon…I should say….
The Mod’s have yet to fix my cat.
Isn’t there a tax on gambling in physical betting shops as it is? I think the bookies have just absorbed/pay it themselves as a ‘gesture of goodwill’ to their punters or something… They’ll probably do the same with this online tax if it’s only 1% so I wouldn’t be getting too worked up about it! The likes of Powers, Boyles and Ladbrokes etc. won’t suffer too much with a 1% tax!
Yes there is a 1% tax, but the bookies just pay it
Nobody said ban it altogether. Prohibiting it online was mentioned and that’s what i commented on. I agree totally with your argument on what problems gambling addiction can cause, but nothing will stop an addict if they they are in the height of their addiction. As i said, regulate it. Maybe put some of the proposed tax into funding for treatment centres and support for people that would probably contribute most to this new tax, and may need the help at some point.
@vannin
No worries Eoin, it’s just as a reformed addict myself (slot machines) I can see the huge problems with making gambling so easly accessable, and I doubt any of the tax taken would be put back into helping with gambling addiction. Drugs, help centers all over the place, but gambling is one of those hidden addictions that no-one talks about.
I was under the impression from your previous posts that you would biting off your nose to spit your face if you wanted online gambling banned as you like a flutter yourself? You would hardly class yourself as a ‘reformed addict’ if that’s the case surely? Gambling addiction is one,if not the worst addictions out there, and is very easy for people to hide. As for the tax collected going back into treating people that need it?? It doesn’t seem to happen in this country now does it!
My addiction was slots, horses or dogs just never took a grip so I can take them or leave them, the addiction is surprisingly complex with gambing
I would have thought that if somebody is addicted to something,whether it be alcohol, drugs, gambling, that it would be all forms of of them. For example, I couldn’t say I’m an alcoholic but only with vodka.I drink beer instead. Or I couldn’t say I’m a drug addict but I like a line of coke from time to time. I could be wrong but it it seems kinda logical.
You are right Eoin
Vannin is talking absolute shite and if he ever really had, or even knew somebody who really had a gambling addiction he would see that from the stupidity of his post.
this is a doodle to get around. if any individual cannot immediately bypass this then they really should not be using a computer at home as the world and his wife is probably looking through your webcam as we speak.
If it goes ahead the betting company should pay it the same way they did in the past, 1c in the euro they can well afford it.
Would the European Union ever F off .. Breathtaking arrogance
A tax on gambling and betting, on line or otherwise, is in the vast majority of cases a highly discriminatory tax because it is a tax on mugs.
The consequences of excessive gambling are horrific.
All gambling is “fixed”.
Have you heard of Betfair. You can be the punter or the bookie. How’s that fixed?
Copying the English in everything they do…
“”Betting duty” at 6.75% was applied to sports bets until 2001 when it was replaced by a 15% tax on gross profits.[15]
From 1 December 2014, the Gambling (Licensing & Advertising) Bill[16] will change the taxation of remote gambling from a ‘place of supply’ basis to a ‘point of consumption’ basis.[17]
The betting industry alone is reported to contribute £6 billion as of January 2010, 0.5% of GDP. Furthermore it employs over 100,000 people and generates £700 Million in tax revenue.[18]”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gambling_in_the_United_Kingdom#Economy_and_taxation
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