Seeing losing at gambling from different perspectives

There has been an amount of publicity in recent times about the pain and suffering that gambling can cause.

Former Armagh footballer, Oisín McConville, says there has been a massive increase in problem gambling during the Covid-19 Lockdown.

McConville had a serious gambling addiction until he sought treatment at the age of 30. He is keenly aware of the devastating impact it can have on people and those closest to them.

In 1863 Fyodor Dostoevsky, while on a visit to Wiesbaden in Germany, having lost all his money gambling said: “Losing is gambling’s greatest thrill. It’s like sliding down a snowy hill on a sled.”

He expressed that idea when he was preparing his notes for  ‘Crime and Punishment’.