{"id":69583,"date":"2025-09-17T12:51:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T12:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/69583\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T12:51:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T12:51:09","slug":"teenage-boys-dedicating-more-hours-to-gaming-than-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/69583\/","title":{"rendered":"Teenage Boys Dedicating More Hours To Gaming Than School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"aiir-c-news-extra__timestamp\">\n                    Wednesday, 17 September 2025 13:23\n                <\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/65a95571e33b3.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            Teenagers aged 15 and 17 are spending more than five hours a day on gaming consoles.\n        <\/p>\n<p>Teenage boys are now spending more time playing video games than they are at school.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>UK research from gambling addiction charity Ygame shows boys aged between 15 and 17 are playing games for 34 hours a week. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It equates to roughly five hours a day. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Psychotherapist and Author, Stella O&#8217;Malley from Birr, says some parents see no issue with it:<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wednesday, 17 September 2025 13:23 Teenagers aged 15 and 17 are spending more than five hours a day&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69584,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[19870,19869,18,19,17,19872,11763,3136,19868,3172,19867,5,3171,5485,82,19871],"class_list":{"0":"post-69583","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-broadcast","9":"tag-broadcasting","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-irish-news","14":"tag-laois","15":"tag-local-news","16":"tag-local-radio","17":"tag-midlands","18":"tag-midlands-103","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-offaly","21":"tag-radio","22":"tag-technology","23":"tag-westmeath"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}