Online casino reviews and the best new online casinos

There is no doubt that gambling has been part of human history for hundreds if not thousands of years. Some of the casino games we now play for instance have their origins in games which we know from historical evidence were played by the Greeks and the Romans, but the last few years may well prove to be the biggest ever period of change in our gambling habits. We are referring of course to the development of online gambling and in particular the introduction of online casinos. The spread of personal computers, followed by laptops, tablets and the latest generation of mobile phones has meant that the majority of the population in countries like Ireland have easy access to the internet wherever they are, which in turn means that they also have access to the huge range of services which are now available online. Playing casino games at an online casino is just one of these relatively new options resulting from recent rapid advances in technology, but it is of course our primary interest here at onlinecasino.ie and the remarkable speed of development and innovation within the online casino sector has increased our interest and even changed our objectives. When online casinos were first introduced it was the range of casino games which caught our attention, particularly the range of traditional casino games which had never been available in our real casinos in Ireland. This led us to dedicate a significant part of this site to explaining and detailing the rules and strategies associated with these newly available casino games. Since then the biggest change we have seen has been in the number of new online casinos we can now access in Ireland, many of which have introduced new ideas and certainly a lot of new and interesting games. As a result of this influx of new online casino sites, our regular online casino reviews and the resulting list of recommended online casinos has taken on even more significance than ever before. The first online casinos were almost created by accident, in that the major bookmakers who first set up the online gambling sites which were aimed to encourage their sports gambling customers to gamble online suddenly decided to add some gambling games to these established sites. The idea proved popular and they therefore continued to add more games until they all had over a hundred games and a lot of new customers who simply enjoyed playing the casino games. All the well-known bookmakers now had online casinos as part of their online sports gambling sites, and for the first few years casino games fans were restricted to one or more of these sites.

Those of us who are casino games enthusiasts owe a great debt to these major bookmakers for introducing the idea of playing casino games online, and for providing us with further improvements such as the Live online casino and Free online casino options plus a huge range of different games. It is also true that many of us also enjoy gambling on sporting events, so the ability to do that on the same site is another attraction of these multi-option sites.  The online casinos operated by the major bookmakers are therefore very popular and retain by far the biggest market share between them. In Ireland for instance Paddy Power is clearly the most high profile bookmaker and the Paddy Power online casino is therefore probably the biggest in terms of the number of customers. The Paddy Power casino also has a good range of casino games, many of which are not available at the other big online gambling sites, because they have chosen to use Wagerworks as their online casino software supplier rather than a company such as Playtech which supplies software and games to a number of different online casino sites. Paddy Power online casino customers in Ireland also have the advantage of being able to deposit and withdraw money to and from their accounts in cash at one of their many high street betting shops. That also applies to customers of the Ladbrokes online casino site, which again as a result of a considerable high street presence is probably the second most popular site. Ladbrokes casino customers can currently play casino games supplied by Microgaming, but Ladbrokes also now have a deal with Playtech which will undoubtedly increase their options.

The other major bookmakers who operate online casinos which appear on our recommended list as part of their comprehensive online gambling sites are Bwin, Betfred and 888 Holdings. All of these online casinos offer an excellent range of casino games and are perfect for people who enjoy sports gambling as well as playing casino games, and do not want to register with more than one site.

Finally we come to the new kids on the block, by which we mean the excellent new specialist online casinos which are not part of a much larger online gambling site and concentrate solely on providing exciting new games. These new online casinos are the reason why we believe that our regular online casino reviews are now much more relevant than they were in the early days of online casinos which were dominated by the big bookmakers. Online casinos such as the All Irish casino for example have also managed to bring a new dimension to the online casino sector, with their Live casino option actually being streamed from a real casino in Malta instead of a studio. This is proving very popular with casino games fans who miss the atmosphere of a real casino, and because the All Irish casino also offers new slots games provided by NetEnt has made this site a must visit for Irish fans.

Two other welcome new entrants to the online casino scene are CasinoCasino and CasinoLand. Both offer an exciting range of new casino slots games supplied by a number of different software companies, and there will be many slots enthusiasts who will be delighted that the extremely popular slot machine games from Amatic Industries are now available online for the first time at the CasinoCasino site. If you are looking for something different we would advise that you also check out the two newest online casinos, Instacasino and Yako casino, both of which are worth a look.