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In 2000, the National Lottery introduced Lotto Plus as an add-on to the main Lotto game. For an extra £0.25 per line, players could enter their Lotto numbers in an additional 6/42 drawing for a fixed, non-rolling jackpot of £250,000. The first Lotto Plus drawing took place on 25 October 2000. [77]
The Irish Hospitals' Sweepstake was a lottery established in the Irish Free State in 1930 as the Irish Free State Hospitals' Sweepstake to finance hospitals. It is generally referred to as the Irish Sweepstake or Irish Sweepstakes, frequently abbreviated to Irish Sweep or Irish Sweeps. The Public Charitable Hospitals (Temporary Provisions) Act ...
Winning Streak is an Irish television game show that was produced for the National Lottery, and broadcast from 21 September 1990 to 21 March 2020 on RTÉ One.Produced in RTE's Studio 1 at their Television Centre in Dublin, the series featured contestants qualified via National Lottery scratchcards, who received the chance to win cash and other prizes.
EuroMillions [a] is a transnational lottery that requires seven correct numbers to win the jackpot, which consists of 5 main numbers and 2 Lucky Star Numbers. It was launched on 7 February 2004 by France 's Française des Jeux , Spain 's Loterías y Apuestas del Estado and the United Kingdom 's Allwyn .
The Irish Lotto has operated since September 2018. When a player buys a ticket in the Irish Lotto, The Lottery Office purchases a matching ticket in the Irish National Lottery’s ‘Lotto’. To play Irish Lotto, players choose 6 numbers from a pool of 1 to 47. The Irish Lotto has two draws each week, on Thursdays and Sundays, AEST.
Daily Millions was a US lottery game administered by the Multi-State Lottery Association(MUSL). It was available in some of the jurisdictions that sell MUSL's most popular game, Powerball; membership fluctuated during the period when it was available. It began in September 1996 and was discontinued in March 1998.
$55.3 million [3] Waking Ned (titled Waking Ned Devine in North America) is a 1998 comedy film written and directed by Kirk Jones and starring Ian Bannen , David Kelly , and Fionnula Flanagan . Kelly was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award for his role as Michael O'Sullivan. [ 4 ]
Prior to 1992, the Irish singles chart was compiled from trade shipments from the labels to record stores, rather than on consumer sales, [1] and were first broadcast on RTÉ on 1 October 1962. Before this, charts had been printed in the Evening Herald newspaper, but are under debate as to whether they are official or not.