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On the Record: Ninety years ago The Irish Hospitals' Sweepstake was established here, but behind the hopes of fortune lay a seedy underbelly. Damian Corless author of ‘The Greatest Bleeding Hearts Racket in the World’ discusses. With thanks to PWCIreland

 

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PwCIreland At least the Sweep made some pretence towards supporting good causes! Newstalk cash machine just huge profits for a global conglomerate Bauer..

PwCIreland Seedy underbelly, tawdry promotion tactics, targeting people who would never otherwise gamble or even think this was a gamble.. Sound familiar?

PwCIreland What year saw the start up of the networks cashmachine?will this just roll on for years, like the sweep, until enough people cop on that its just a gamble, sorry, not just a gamble but a multimillion gamble.over €on the phone bill each month, but,shur, its a just a game

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