Reports coming back from the first day of the Irish gaming show in Dublin suggest that the industry there is preparing for fresh legislation.
Our Irish colleagues have been here before, of course, several times, but there is an expectation that it might actualy happen this time, especially with the last-minute recall of the head of the regulator, Ann Maria Caulfield, on the grounds of an "imminent and significant announcement on new gambling regulation."
A presentation substituted for an address that Ms Caulfield had been programmed to deliver at a seminar duting the show.
The footfall was apparently good at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, close to Dublin Airport, which was a useful venue for the visitors and exhibitors from outside of Ireland, many of them from UK suppliers for whom the Republic is a useful or even significant extra market.
The social side of the Irish show is always a major talking point and apparently was well up to the usual standards.
