Eoin Kavanagh

About Eoin Kavanagh

When a casino’s footer says “licensed and regulated”, Eoin Kavanagh’s first question is which statutory instrument, if any, has brought the relevant section of the Gambling Regulation Act 2024 into force. His articles separate what the Act says from what has actually been commenced. He names the commencement order where one exists, and he says plainly when there isn’t one.

He read civil law (BCL) at University College Cork. He then spent several years in compliance roles in Dublin’s payments sector, working on customer due diligence and transaction monitoring, before he started writing about gambling regulation in 2014. That background shows in his payments coverage. He’s more interested in why a withdrawal is held for source-of-funds checks under anti-money-laundering law than in how quickly it arrives.

On this site he covers the GRAI’s powers and their limits, and what licences from Malta, Kahnawake and elsewhere actually require of an operator. He also writes about the new rules on credit cards and inducements. He doesn’t predict when a section will be commenced, and he doesn’t write reviews that rate individual games or bonuses. Those belong to colleagues who check his work as he checks theirs.

Corrections on any point of law are welcome, especially with the statute section attached.