{"id":689747,"date":"2026-03-29T08:15:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T08:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/689747\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T08:15:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T08:15:15","slug":"a-lot-of-people-are-traumatised-irish-phone-addicts-will-take-cases-against-social-media-companies-here-says-expert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/689747\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018A lot of people are traumatised\u2019 \u2013 Irish phone addicts will take cases against social media companies here, says expert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">One million people in Ireland are suffering \u2018mild to moderate\u2019 harm from social media, says Prof Colin O\u2019GaraPsychiatrist is also seeing \u2018a monstrous number of porn users in Ireland\u2019\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1774772115_295_video.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Dr Colin O&#8217;Gara &#8211; harmful phone use is now affecting 20pc of the Irish population<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A leading addiction spec\u00adialist has said it is \u201cinevitable\u201d that Irish people will try to take legal action against social media companies over the harm that online content can cause to their mental health.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Consultant psychiatrist Colin O\u2019Gara was speaking to the Sunday Independent after a landmark court ruling in the US found that both Meta and YouTube were liable for deliberately designing addictive products that hooked a young user and led her to develop social phobia, body dysmorphia and depression.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One million people in Ireland are suffering \u2018mild to moderate\u2019 harm from social media, says Prof Colin O\u2019GaraPsychiatrist&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":689748,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[36],"tags":[217690,2722,210,80797,517,340,249698,289090,491,67,132,68,28585],"class_list":["post-689747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-apple-company","tag-google","tag-health","tag-hse","tag-mental-health","tag-meta","tag-niamh-horan","tag-ronan-ogara","tag-technology-news","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-x-formerly-twitter"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116311472604373054","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=689747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/689748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=689747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=689747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=689747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}