Siobhán Dineen

About Siobhán Dineen

On some casino apps a deposit takes two taps, while setting a deposit limit means five screens and a menu labelled “Account” rather than anything to do with limits. Siobhán Dineen’s reviews set those two journeys side by side, because the distance between them says more about a casino’s mobile design than its splash screen does.

Her pages start from what you want to do on a phone: find a named game, check your balance after a live hand, set a limit or ask for a withdrawal. Each says where the journey breaks, such as a cashier that times out when you switch apps to verify a payment, or a search box that only finds games by their studio’s spelling. Loading and session behaviour are given as ranges with the conditions named, such as Wi-Fi or mobile data, app or browser.

She also traces shared platforms. A good share of the brands Irish players see run on a handful of platforms, so sister sites often share a cashier, a game library and the same weak points. Where the mobile library is smaller than the desktop one, she says which games are missing.

She studied computing at Dublin Institute of Technology and worked in mobile app testing and accessibility before writing about casinos in 2017. She doesn’t assume the app beats the mobile site. Often it doesn’t.