One of the most frequent questions we are asked here at onlinecasino.ie is why the online casinos have proved so successful. There are probably a number of different opinions and explanations expressed to answer this question, so let’s look at a few of them. As far as Ireland is concerned we have always enjoyed gambling over the years, particularly gambling on horse racing and football so it is no surprise that when the bookmakers gave us the option of sports gambling online we accepted it with open arms. We also enjoy playing games and took to playing games on games consoles and the internet like a duck to water. Many of us also played casino games at a real casino, although for most of us that was an occasional night out because of the travel involved. The first online casinos were almost all introduced as part of the bookmakers’ online gambling sites, effectively targeting people who were already gambling fans so the opportunity to play casino games online was readily accepted by many of these existing customers. Since then of course the range of casino games available at the online casinos has increased dramatically and now appeals to a much wider audience. The online casinos have much lower overheads than a real casino, or indeed the pubs and clubs, so the slots games in particular give us the opportunity to have a great deal of fun for very small stakes. The variety of casino games available at the online casinos also now include several different versions of bingo plus scratch cards and lottery games, all of which appeal to a much wider section of the population who were not sports gambling fans or casino games players. Playing casino games at an online casino has therefore become a leisure activity which not only satisfies the demands of a very wide section of the population, but it is convenient and need not cost much money.