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The latest Irish online casino news

By admin on 2016-01-21 10:19:43

As regular readers will know here at onlinecasino.ie at least once a month we like to take a look at any Irish casino news which may interest our online casino games enthusiasts. This may relate to new casino games being introduced by one of our Irish online casino sites, or as has been the case for most of the last few months of 2015 news of take overs or mergers concerning our most popular online casino operators. For the most part these mergers and take overs do not directly affect most online casino games players, unless they are also shareholders in one of the companies involved, but we feel that we should at least acknowledge what is happening in the online casino sector and the online gambling sector as a whole. The consolidation activity we have seen over recent months in the online casino and online gambling sector is of course directly related to the changes in the tax rules relating to online gambling, specifically the legislation relating to tax being levied on these companies on where their revenues are received. All the major online casino operating companies will receive a hit on their bottom line as a result of these changes and there has therefore been a scramble to find ways of reducing other costs to compensate for this loss. As far as the Irish online casino operators are concerned the biggest merger has been the tie up between Paddy Power and Betfair, which although the deal surprised many observers when it was announced has been received probably more enthusiastically than any of the other mergers we have seen. Shareholders in both companies were clearly very pleased, and we hope that the casino games players who represent a significant proportion of their customers will also see a benefit from the merger.