Niamh Hegarty

About Niamh Hegarty

The clause Niamh Hegarty reads first in any welcome offer is rarely the wagering multiple. It’s usually two lines further down: the cap on what bonus winnings can be withdrawn, or the rule that a single bet over €5 voids the whole bonus. Her bonus breakdowns quote that clause word for word and then work out in euro what it costs, before the headline figure is mentioned at all.

She came to it from consumer complaints. After a journalism degree at the University of Limerick, she spent the early part of her career handling complaints for an Irish consumer finance firm, and she has written about casino and betting promotions since 2016. Much of what she now covers on player protection grew out of that work: deposit limits, cooling-off periods, how self-exclusion works with each operator, and what the planned national exclusion register will and won’t do once it opens.

She doesn’t rank operators by the size of their offers, and she won’t call a bonus worth taking if its terms can’t be cleared at ordinary stakes. Questions of law go to the regulation desk. Niamh covers what the terms do to your balance.