President and gambling ads

Sir, – With major focus, in past days, on the furore generated by the Nphet advice on indoor dining, it would be regrettable if President Michael D Higgins’s noteworthy views on gambling advertisements went unheralded.

Not for the first time he spoke of gambling doing “so much damage to families and individuals”. Adding that the advertisements were accompanied by “totally minimal, tokenistic invitations to be responsible... not good enough”, he said.

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