The legal battle is approaching its end. Cala Mosca, the last virgin kilometre of the Oriola coast, will have no further obstacles to its project to build 2,200 homes after the Government’s Highway Agency told the Save Cala Mosca platform, they have no intention of continuing the fight, following the ruling of the Superior Court of Justice of the Valencian Community.

On Wednesday, members of the N332 road safety team will be in Orihuela Costa town hall to present the latest digital publication relating to driving and road safety, Road Trip to Spain.

Everyone is welcome but please reserve your seat at: n332facebook@hotmail.com

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A historical air and atmosphere flooded the streets of Orihuela City over the weekend as the traditional Medieval Market opened on Friday with the customary inauguration parade, followed by three days in which visitors were able to experience the most glorious times of the city, and the cultural melting pot, that was brought together within its walls.

In Torrevieja we report on the 9 million euro investment for a new park that is planned for La Torreta and of course on the city achievement, according to its own figures, of 100, 000 residents, which makes it the fifth largest in the Valencian Community.

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FITUR, the International Tourism Fair held last week in Madrid, is the first annual event for world tourism professionals. Formally opened by King Felipe and Queen Leticia, it is held over five days that translate into hundreds of opportunities, contacts, projects and deals, for those with high decision-making power in the sector.

One local man in attendance was Guardia Civil Traffic Officer, Francisco Morales, who was on show at the Orihuela stand where he unveiled his new N332 publication ‘ROAD TRIP TO SPAIN’!

Monday’s edition also reports on the ceremony of lowering the Spanish flag that was carried out on the deck of the Naval Patrol Boat “Isla Pinto”, in Campoamor Marina last Tuesday.

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The full schedule for the Torrevieja Carnival 2024 has now been published, and once again the event is not to be missed as it is set to bring an enormous amount of colour, glamour, music and fun to the streets of the town. The main events and parades are highlighted on pages one and two.

We also tell the remarkable story of veteran Dennis Padget who watched the detonation of some of the world’s first nuclear bombs from close by, dressed only in shorts, shirt and a bush hat, after his Commanding Officer suggested there would be no danger, and in sport, while CD Thader started the new year with a win, Glasgow Rangers fell to a defeat by a single goal at La Manga.

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On Friday, Dr Marciano Gómez, the Minister of Health in the Valencian Community, announced the re-introduction of facemasks in hospitals and health centres, with immediate effect, due to the recent increase in cases of flu and respiratory infections. The action is introduced alongside those in the neighbouring Province of Murcia.

Also on Friday, thousands of excited Youngsters enjoyed the delights of Three Kings parades up and down the region. In Torrevieja, their majesties arrived on the schooner ‘Pascual Flores’ while in Orihuela Costa the Councillor for the coast, General Manuel Mestre, donned the garb of King Melchior, as he rode through the streets on a white stallion.

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The Orihuela Chamber of Commerce now has a Digital Coworking office on the Orihuela Costa. The unit, which opened its doors on Friday, has 323 square metres spread over two floors. It is in a prized location, the old La Caixa Bank offices in the Cabo Roig Commercial Centre just off the N-332 highway.

The PSOE of Torrevieja has denounced the mayor of Torrevieja, Eduardo Dolón, for lying in a plenary session and AEMET is warning of the start of the driest hydrological year since 1869 with local water stocks currently standing at just 19.1 percent.

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Lifelong friends, Ana and Anastasia, one Russian and one Ukraine, who run a cafeteria in Los Andenes de Orihuela called “La Bohemia”, had a stroke of good fortune scooping a fifth prize win the ‘El Gordo’ Christmas lottery held last Friday. The pair sold tickets in their bar, winning 6,000 euros for each of 200 lucky customers and friends.

Still with money, the mayor of Orihuela, Pepe Vegara, has said that he hopes to have the 2024 budget approved in the Plenary meeting held toward the end of January, the first since 2018.

Good news for one mayor but not so for the mayor of Los Montesinos, José Manuel Butrón, who is to appear in court in May to answer charges of bribery and harassment.

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The National Police have arrested a British fugitive in Torrevieja, who is wanted in the United Kingdom for the murder of his partner on Christmas Day back in 1990.

In Orihuela the cancellation of a charity disco, that is held every Christmas Eve, has raised fears that LGTBI phobia by the municipal council was behind the decision and 3D technology has arrived in Torrevieja Hospital where a team from the Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology department at the has performed the first surgical intervention in the province of Alicante using a robotic microscope system, with augmented vision and 3D reality.

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After just two days of surveys by archaeologists from the Arpa Patrimony company, the profile of the historic Turbio, or Mínguez dock in Torrevieja, has been unearthed, clearly exposing the ashlars, large square-cut stones, of the town’s 19th century mooring, the centre of the commercial seafaring and fishing activity in Torrevieja, before the city was able to build its own port.

The Regional Secretary for Health and Social Care, Emilio Argüeso, paid a surprise visit to the ‘under fire’ Savia Nursing home in Villamartin on Monday where, together with Inspectors, he carried out a review of the Orihuela Costa residence following problems highlighted in the home by The Leader,  on Tuesday, heir to the Spanish throne,  Princess Leonor, comes of age, a young lady that is increasingly orbiting Spain’s celebrity universe.

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In late September when the Councillor for Street Cleaning, Rocío Ortuño, announced the creation of an Eco-park in Orihuela Costa, there was much celebration amongst residents that they were finally going to get their wish.

But then came the announcement that it was going to be placed in the middle of the upmarket Lomas de Cabo Roig Urbanisation, since which time social media sites have been overwhelmed with protestations, accusing the council of putting no thought into its location.

Ryanair’s share of the low cost airline passenger market into Spain has increased once again and with the closure by the RBL of it’s Orihuela Costa Branch, the charity will not have poppies on sale in areas south of Torrevieja, down to La Manga, resulting in a loss of up to €40,000 in welfare funding for local veterans.

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It is being reported in the Spanish press that the Association of Residences of the Valencian Community (ReCoVa) has denounced “the lack of staff and care, poor nutrition and the violation of fundamental rights” in the Savia Villamartín, Orihuela Costa, Care Home, and has demanded that the Consell inspect and sanction the “chaos” in this nursing homes for the elderly.

A death notice on an Irish obituary website rip.ie has reported the death of Simon Fahy, one of six people facing trial for the 2018 murder of Carl Carr in Torrevieja and it seems that, since reverting to public management, the running costs for Torrevieja Hospital have increased by as much as an extra €100 million which, of course, is coming out of the pockets of the general public, the approximate costs of building a new hospital, or perhaps providing decent healthcare to the region’s elderly population.

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A death notice on an Irish obituary website rip.ie has reported the death of Simon Fahy, one of six people facing trial for the 2018 murder of Carl Carr in Torrevieja.

The notice carries his photo, saying that he would be “sadly missed” by his heartbroken mum and dad and other relatives and friends.

The notice stated that he died last Friday, announcing that a funeral would take place privately for Simon, from Loughboy, Kilkenny, for “family and close friends only.”

The circumstances surrounding his death have not been made public, although it is understood it is not being treated as a crime.

The 30-year-old was one of six people, including prime suspect Wayne Walsh, prosecuted and facing trial following a long-running investigation sparked by the January 2019 discovery of Carl Carr’s body in a shallow grave by the AP7 motorway in Rojales.

See also: Missing Irishman was beaten to death

Police said they believed that Carr was killed in a fight with a knuckle-duster before his body was driven to woods 20 minutes north of his home and buried alongside bottles of bleach that were used at the house in a clean-up operation to hide the crime.

The Civil Guard considers that Fahy had an active part in the crime leading them to issue the warrant four years ago for his arrest in Ireland, for his extradition to Spain, however, the initial extradition request was rejected by Ireland after the authorities said they couldn’t find him at an address they had for him.

As a result, a Spanish judge had just issued a new international arrest warrant against Simon Fahy after declaring him in contempt of court following the earlier failed bid to have him extradited from Ireland. A court official said, “the warrant is still in place and will remain so until the courts here have proof of his death.”

The police investigation states that the alleged murderer was involved in a fist fight with Carl Carr in the house where they both lived in La Siesta, Torrevieja. The dispute took place because Walsh accused his friend of having a relationship with his then sentimental partner, one of the two women who were arrested at the time for cover-up.

It is believed that Carr died in the house where the fight took place and that his body was subsequently moved to the shallow Rojales grave by Walsh and a Spanish friend.

After the discovery of Carr’s body, his mother Marie said: “I believe he was killed because of a romantic triangle, by a man he knew who accused him of dating one of his girlfriends.

“He told me twice in the last conversation we had that he loved me. Those were his last words, ‘I love you Mam’.”

Currently five other accused are on bail, including 35-year-old Walsh who was one of Carl’s flatmates, in La Siesta. Two of the three female suspects include a part-time model and a bar manager Walsh had been romantically linked with. They have not been charged with killing Carl and are instead facing lesser charges including concealment. The trial will be carried out in front of a jury and is thought to be scheduled for early next year.

In March it emerged Wayne Walsh had been re-arrested in Spain as the alleged leader of a drug trafficking organisation.

The Civil Guard subsequently held him on suspicion of leading a gang based in Torrevieja which was using parcel and courier companies to send drugs to the UK, Ireland and the States.

The judicial investigation into the drug allegations is still ongoing but sources said Walsh had also been released on conditional bail in that case.

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Maria, the Pink Ladies and the Pink Panthers, were at Zenia Boulevard last Friday where they raised over 1000 euro for the charity as they commemorated International Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

The Torrevieja Council is now urgently planning the implementation of a Low Emissions Zone (ZBE) for it’s urban area, albeit a year after the original deadline, and with the suborbital flight of the Miura 1, the rocket manufactured in Elche, at 2.19am on Saturday, Spain finally entered the International ‘Space Race’.

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There will be no expansion of the Aguamarina health centre, the only facility that currently serves Orihuela Costa’s 30,000 + residents. The project, inherited from the previous PSOE government, is not among the priorities of the PP-Vox coalition.

Tragic news unfolded on Sunday morning with reports of at least thirteen deaths following a fire at the Teatre nightclub in the Atalayas area of Murcia. The final total could be higher with a number of revellers still reported as missing.

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As the scourge of gender violence continues to claim victims, it seems that this year it is especially prevalent on the Orihuela Costa, after a popular British charity worker was found dead last Friday in her home in Punta Prima’s La Ciñuelica urbanisation.

Scientific experts in Spain warn that they anticipate an earthquake of similar magnitude to the one recently experienced in Morocco, with the possibility of hundreds of deaths, and part 2 of a 4 part series that focusses in the new Animal Protection Law that is about to be introduced in Spain.

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Publication of this week’s Leader was delayed to Tuesday this week because of the public holiday closure of our Tarragona printer.

Lead story focuses on the Plenary Meeting held in Orihuela last Thursday where the new PP and Vox government coalition refused to return the acronym to the Department of Equality and approve the first LGTBI Plan, which was drafted by the previous council.

Page 3 features news of the new Centre for Special Needs that has been approved for San Miguel as well as the demand to the CHS by the Provincial Council to clear riverbeds and ravined of overgrown vegetation in anticipation of Autumn rains.

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1. The CEO of the Irish airline Ryanair, Michael O’Leary, was attacked in Brussels on Thursday by two environmental activists who smeared his face with two cream pies as they shouted out “stop polluting the environment with your planes.”

O’Leary was preparing to make a statement to the press in front of the European Commission (EC) headquarters, when two activists threw the cakes in his face while saying “welcome to Belgium.”

O’Leary was quick to recover, however, as he told the gathered press, “I have never been so well received. Unfortunately they were environmentalists and the cream was artificial so I invited them to  come to Ireland, where the cream is better,”

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Meanwhile Ryanair’s Belgian pilots based at Charleroi airport will go on strike for the fourth time in two months on 14 ad 15 Septembe, in search of better salaries and conditions, as announced by the CNE and ACV Puls unions.

The announcement by the Francophone and Flemish unions came when O’Leary was already in Brussels to give his press conference.

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Tomás Moreno, the spokesperson of Asociación de vecinos Cabo Roig y Lomas-Orihuela Costa writes of the sense of enormous disappointment and frustration felt by the residents of the coast, at the situation they are living through, which he describes as ‘The worst summer in it’s history,’ as a consequence of municipal paralysis and inaction.

And it seems to be little better just down the road in Torrevieja where “serious breaches” by Acciona, the company in charge of garbage collection, which now absorbs a quarter of the entire municipal budget, is failing to meet almost all control indicators, repeatedly and seriously.

And just when we thought we had seen the back of Covid-19, the Vega Baja Hospital in Orihuela has decided to strengthen it’s sanitary control measures as a result of the “significant increase” in patients admitted with the virus.

There are currently 30 patients hospitalised with the disease. As such the hospital has once again made the use of masks mandatory as well as restricting access to the hospital to a single companion.

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Fourteen people were rescued on Thursday morning after they were found by a fishing boat off the coast of Torrevieja. They had been in the water, wearing lifejackets, since Wednesday and included a woman, a seven-year-old girl and a young baby, who was placed in the remains of a plastic petrol can.

A question about mining in the final challenge of the fourth and last Grand Prix semi-final, (It’s a Knockout’), broadcast on Monday night on TVE, sparked anger as it led to the elimination of Los Montesinos, and we now learn that the new Infant and Primary School Number 20, Dehesa de Campoamor de Orihuela, that the government promised to have ready for the new school year, on 11 September, is now unlikely to open until 2024 after the building plot changed for the fourth time.

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Irish people are experiencing the highest levels of loneliness within the European Union, a recent study has revealed.

The study conducted by Alone, a national organization that enables older people to age at home, points out that in Ireland, more than 20 per cent of respondents reported feeling lonely most or all of the time, which is notably higher than the European average of 13 per cent, SchengenVisaInfo.com reports.

Data provided by the same source also shows that the lowest levels of loneliness were found in Austria, the Czech Republic, Croatia, and the Netherlands, all of which reported levels below ten per cent.

As of the first quarter of 2023, Alone’s figures indicate that many older people newly reaching out to the organisation have been facing social isolation.

As a result, 36 per cent of these individuals had not engaged in social activities for more than a month, and a concerning nine per cent had not participated in social activities for over a year.

“The new numbers from this EU-wide survey do not come as a surprise to us ALONE. We know from our numbers that loneliness consistently ranks as Alone’s number one support issue, and it severely impacts our physical and mental health,” Alone CEO Seán Moynihan stated.

Moynihan also emphasised that the government had previously committed to developing an Action Plan to address loneliness through three distinct strategies:

At the same time, he stressed the urgency of the situation urging the Department of Health to allocate resources and expedite the development of the action plan to combat loneliness across all age groups.

According to him, it is essential to mention the provision of funds in the 2024 Budget to finally provide the long-awaited action plan and implement specialised interventions to address and alleviate loneliness in the community.

Moreover, Moynihan called on the Department of Health to collaborate with Alone and the members of the Loneliness Taskforce to address the challenge of loneliness comprehensively and effectively.

The issue of loneliness extends beyond the EU and is also prevalent in the United States. Thus, a survey conducted by Alone in November and December 2022 revealed that over 17 per cent of American adults reported feeling lonely.

Based on the survey, the highest levels of loneliness are observed among specific demographic groups. Young adults under 30 experience loneliness more, with 24 per cent feeling lonely. In addition, individuals from lower-income households earning less than $24,000 per year face a more significant burden of loneliness, with 27 per cent reporting similar feelings.

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This coming week we will enter the month of August and despite promise after promise by the Segura Hydrographic Confederation (CHS), many stretches of the Rio Segura are still completely overgrown with reeds and vegetation which, in the event of a DANA repeat, will surely bring the Vega Baja to it’s knees as it did previously in September 2019.

Torrevieja council has finally given the go ahead to the construction of almost 7,500 new homes in La Hoya Sector 20, which are expected to get underway in September and following a recent inspection by Adeac, Playa Cala Mosca has lost it’s ‘Blue Flag’ accreditation.

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News of the Orihuela Council request that it hopes will see the region’s waterwheels and traditional irrigation system, dating back a thousand years, declared as a UNESCO World Heritage site.

On page 3 we read of a press appearance by the mayor of Orihuela, Pepe Vegara, and his deputy, Manuel Mestre, who on Thursday, announced details of a departmental audit in which they aim to find out the state of each council area, as they complete their first fifteen days of government.

If it’s free entertainment that you are looking for, you need go no further than Zenia Boulevard, where more than 40 events have been organised during the month of July. Mondays are for dancing; on Tuesdays, magic shows; on Wednesdays, water games; on Thursdays, DJ sessions as the sun goes down and on Fridays, music Every Saturday of the month, shoppers can attend classical dance shows, acrobatic and musical shows or ballet On Sundays, families can take the children to many different shows arranged especially for them.

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The Euro millions results, lottery winning numbers, and prize breakdown are published shortly after each Euromillions draw which take place in Paris at 21:00 on Tuesday and Friday evenings.

The Euro Millions lottery is played across nine European countries. These are Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Ireland, Luxembourg, Spain, and the United Kingdom.

About the Euromillions Lottery

The Euromillions lottery is played across nine European countries. These are Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Ireland, Luxembourg, Spain, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom.

The Euro millions lottery draws and the game offers a minimum guaranteed Euromillions jackpot of €17 million. In previous years the Euromillions jackpot has rolled over to a staggering €190 million. However, in Feruary 2020, the maximum jackpot prize was increased to a whopping €200 million when new rules were introduced. These new rules also meant bigger jackpots and more regular Superdraws.

How to play the Euromillions Lottery

To play the Euromillions lottery jackpot, five main numbers between 1 and 50 and two lucky stars between 1 and 12 are picked. If all five main numbers and both Lucky Stars are matched, the player wins the EuroMillions jackpot prize.

Global Lottery Results Service

Lottery winning numbers for the main lotteries are published on the lottery results page.

Euromillions Lottery results and prize breakdown
UK National Lotto results and prize breakdown
Irish Lotto, Plus 1, and Plus 2 results and prize breakdown

The latest lottery results are provided by the Leader Lotto lottery results service.

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The Irish lotto was launched in the late 1980s and it has gone on to raise more than €4.9 billion for good causes, funding projects in sport, recreation, health, welfare, arts, national heritage, and the Irish language.

There are two Irish Lottery draws each week – Wednesday and Saturday – and the Irish Lotto results and winning numbers are published online shortly afterwards.

The Irish Lotto draw takes place every Wednesday and Saturday at around 8pm (GMT).

The Irish lottery has one main draw and two additional draws – Irish Lotto Plus 1 and Irish Lotto Plus 2 – which players can enter and have the opportunity to win more prizes.

How to play the Irish Lotto

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Gambling has, historically, been a complicated market in Ireland. It hasn’t always been legal, and there are very different rules in the ROI and Northern Ireland. Nonetheless, today, the market is growing rapidly, thanks to a wide variety of factors. The market is expected to continue growing over the next few years and shows no signs of slowing down. While you might automatically think that the online market is the most important reason for this, land-based betting is also on the rise.

Let’s look at the different figures for Ireland’s growing gambling market.

Betting

Betting of one form or another is certainly the most popular way to gamble in Ireland. In 2019 alone, the Irish spent almost €10 billion on betting of some kind or another. This total spent was distributed over an enormous 70% of the population, all of whom bet in some form or another over a year. Naturally, some individuals bet a great deal more than others, but the figure is nonetheless very telling.

The single most popular form of betting, unsurprisingly, is lotteries and scratch cards. Of the 70% of people who gambled in the last year, around 56% of those did so either by buying a lottery ticket or scratch card.

In terms of demographics, the most likely to vote are aged between 53-44, and 55-64. Betting is easily the most well established way to bet in Ireland, whether that’s on the lottery, on sports betting such as on horse racing or on football games. The Irish have been betting in this way for a very long time, and the market is expected to grow to close to €20 billion by 2027.

That said, betting is not the only way the Irish bet.

Online casinos

Online casinos make casino betting more accessible than ever. Land based casinos are, strictly speaking, illegal in Ireland—though that hasn’t stopped establishments from offering betting services through a membership loophole.

But online casinos are becoming more popular all the time. Compared to pre-2020, around half of all casino betting now takes place online. There are over 2,000 operators in Ireland running licensed online casinos, and this aspect of gambling alone accounts for anywhere from €50-100 million per year in gambling revenue.

Online casinos in Ireland are expected to grow by around 10% by 2026. With all this said, there are upcoming regulations to the online casino market in Ireland which may spell trouble for their overall growth figures. It’s naturally very hard to say exactly what these regulations may look like, but at their current pace, online casinos are plainly going to drive enormous growth in Ireland’s gambling market.

So, where does that leave online gambling as a whole?

Online gambling

Online casinos are naturally an important part of Ireland’s gambling market, but online gambling like sportsbook betting is plainly where the real growth is occurring. Online betting sites are advantageous for the players in many ways which has drawn more people to the game. Online betting revenues have been more or less doubling year on year for the last few years. Around €4-5 billion each year is accounted for in online gambling revenue.

Whether that’s betting on the football, the horse racing, or even more obscure niche markets like foreign sports leagues or even reality TV, online betting is enormously popular in Ireland. Online betting for sportsbook or anything else is far more accessible than, say, physical betting shops. Players can easily bet from home with their mobile or desktop devices, and on a much wider variety of markets. Not only that, with the wider markets available, players are more likely to find something they are actually invested in to bet on. If you are not a big football fan, you might be able to bet on your favourite reality show!

What’s particularly important to note about the Irish gambling market is that the Irish are, per capita, some of the most avid bettors in Europe and the world. In terms of the money spent on gambling based on the population, Ireland is the third biggest country in the world for gambling and this figure is growing. This is down, in very large part, to the move towards online gambling and the availability, and increased competition, between betting operators in Ireland.

Whichever area you look at, then, it’s plain to see that it’s all growing. Online gambling has made the activity open to a vastly new market that would not otherwise be able to place a bet or play in a casino. While we can expect the regulations to be shaken up more and more over the years, and this will certainly influence how the market expands and changes, one thing is certain: Ireland’s gambling market will continue to grow for the foreseeable future.

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The Irish lotto was launched in the late 1980s and it has gone on to raise more than €4.9 billion for good causes, funding projects in sport, recreation, health, welfare, arts, national heritage, and the Irish language.

There are two Irish Lottery draws each week – Wednesday and Saturday – and the Irish Lotto results and winning numbers are published online shortly afterwards.

The Irish Lotto draw takes place every Wednesday and Saturday at around 8pm (GMT).

The Irish lottery has one main draw and two additional draws – Irish Lotto Plus 1 and Irish Lotto Plus 2 – which players can enter and have the opportunity to win more prizes.

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How to play the Irish Lotto

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The Irish lotto was launched in the late 1980s and it has gone on to raise more than €4.9 billion for good causes, funding projects in sport, recreation, health, welfare, arts, national heritage, and the Irish language.

There are two Irish Lottery draws each week – Wednesday and Saturday – and the <a href=”https://www.theleader.info/lotteries/lottery-results/irish-lotto-results-and-winning-numbers/” target=”_blank” rel=”noopener”>Irish Lotto results and winning numbers</a> are published online shortly afterwards.

The Irish Lotto draw takes place every Wednesday and Saturday at around 8pm (GMT).

The Irish lottery has one main draw and two additional draws – Irish Lotto Plus 1 and Irish Lotto Plus 2 – which players can enter and have the opportunity to win more prizes.

Wednesday 10 May 2023

How to play the Irish Lotto

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The Euro millions results, lottery winning numbers, and prize breakdown are published shortly after each Euromillions draw which take place in Paris at 21:00 on Tuesday and Friday evenings.

The Euro Millions lottery is played across nine European countries. These are Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Ireland, Luxembourg, Spain, and the United Kingdom.

About the Euromillions Lottery

The Euromillions lottery is played across nine European countries. These are Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Ireland, Luxembourg, Spain, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom.

The Euro millions lottery draws and the game offers a minimum guaranteed Euromillions jackpot of €17 million. In previous years the Euromillions jackpot has rolled over to a staggering €190 million. However, in Feruary 2020, the maximum jackpot prize was increased to a whopping €200 million when new rules were introduced. These new rules also meant bigger jackpots and more regular Superdraws.

How to play the Euromillions Lottery

To play the Euromillions lottery jackpot, five main numbers between 1 and 50 and two lucky stars between 1 and 12 are picked. If all five main numbers and both Lucky Stars are matched, the player wins the EuroMillions jackpot prize.

Global Lottery Results Service

Lottery winning numbers for the main lotteries are published on the lottery results page.

Euromillions Lottery results and prize breakdown
UK National Lotto results and prize breakdown
Irish Lotto, Plus 1, and Plus 2 results and prize breakdown

The latest lottery results are provided by the Leader Lotto lottery results service.

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The Irish lotto was launched in the late 1980s and it has gone on to raise more than €4.9 billion for good causes, funding projects in sport, recreation, health, welfare, arts, national heritage, and the Irish language.

There are two Irish Lottery draws each week – Wednesday and Saturday – and the Irish Lotto results and winning numbers are published online shortly afterwards.

The Irish Lotto draw takes place every Wednesday and Saturday at around 8pm (GMT).

The Irish lottery has one main draw and two additional draws – Irish Lotto Plus 1 and Irish Lotto Plus 2 – which players can enter and have the opportunity to win more prizes.

Saturday 06 May 2023

How to play the Irish Lotto

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The Irish lotto was launched in the late 1980s and it has gone on to raise more than €4.9 billion for good causes, funding projects in sport, recreation, health, welfare, arts, national heritage, and the Irish language.

There are two Irish Lottery draws each week – Wednesday and Saturday – and the Irish Lotto results and winning numbers are published online shortly afterwards.

The Irish Lotto draw takes place every Wednesday and Saturday at around 8pm (GMT).

The Irish lottery has one main draw and two additional draws – Irish Lotto Plus 1 and Irish Lotto Plus 2 – which players can enter and have the opportunity to win more prizes.

Wednesday 03 May 2023

How to play the Irish Lotto

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