Lotto fever has gripped a Cork harbour town — a playground for the wealthy where luxury yachts are a regular sight — as rumours swirl about the identity of Ireland’s newest Lotto millionaire.

Lotto luck this year created 22 millionaires across the country.

It has proved to be a very merry Christmas for some National Lottery winners, but for one ticket holder, the clock is ticking as to whether they see out the year €500,000 the richer.

A National Lottery player is today celebrating bringing it home for Christmas after landing last night’s mega €5.4m Lotto jackpot on a ticket brought at a shop in Dublin Airport.

The winner of the €2.4m Lotto jackpot from Wednesday has revealed positive thinking and a self help book convinced him he would one day win the big one.

The National Lottery has celebrated its 30th birthday with special guest Taoiseach Leo Varadkar in attendance for a live broadcast of the midweek draw for €5.5m.

The National Lottery celebrates its 30th birthday this week and in that time has created more than 800 millionaires and donated almost €5 billion to charitable causes.

A syndicate from the West of Ireland walked out of National Lottery headquarters instant multi-millionaires today after collecting their spectacular €29m EuroMillions jackpot win.

It could be you. The identity of Ireland’s latest multimillionaire remains a mystery as the National Lottery has urged players to check their tickets.

If the owner of a €1 million winning Lotto ticket finds it today, they will feel a proper April fool as the deadline for claiming the prize passed late yesterday afternoon.

The winner(s) of the €1m National Lottery Christmas Millionaire Raffle has just 24 hours left to claim their prize, Lotto chiefs have warned.

A Christmas dream could soon turn into a nightmare for the owner of a lotto ticket worth €1m as they only have days to claim their prize.

Fancy your luck in the Lotto?

Now for the small matter of collecting the cash.

After a three-year break, the country’s Journalism Awards will return this November.

The price of a lottery ticket is going up while the odds of winning the big jackpot are going down, as part of a raft of new changes to the National Lottery.

National Lottery ticket terminals briefly crashed yesterday for the fourth time in just over a month.

Lotto bosses are refusing to comment on claims that prices for National Lottery games will increase within the next few months and that more balls will be added to draws — decreasing the chances of winning.

The new operators of the National Lottery are to appear before the Oireachtas finance committee next Wednesday to face a grilling from retailers and politicians about serious technical glitches in the system since the takeover.

National Lottery ticket terminals crashed yesterday for two hours — for the second time in less than a month.

“Technical problems” have been blamed for the National Lottery’s decision to delay its midweek draw from last night to tonight.

It could be you. . .but this time around it’s 44 other lucky Lottery winners who have jetted off to San Francisco for a six-day luxury break.

The man convicted of causing the death of a boy 13 years ago by setting a children’s makeshift den on fire yesterday received a 15-year prison sentence.

A Dublin man convicted last month of causing the death of a boy 13 years ago by setting a children's makeshift den on fire has been sentenced to 15 years in prison.

A court has heard that a man found guilty of killing a boy in Dublin has a substantial criminal record spanning almost four decades.

The National Lottery produced 23 new millionaires last year, along with two EuroMillions jackpot winners, one of whom won close to €100m.

A man has been found guilty of setting a children’s makeshift den on fire causing the death of a boy more than 13 years ago.

A man has been found guilty of killing a 12-year-old boy by setting his wooden den on fire in Dublin while he was asleep inside.

A Dublin man accused of killing a 12-year old boy in a fire told his neighbour not to tell gardaí he was there, a court has heard.

The jury in a manslaughter trial has heard how a boy who escaped a fire at a makeshift den tried to rescue his friend.

A court has heard that the friend of a boy who died when his makeshift den burned down in Dublin was hysterical when people arrived at the scene.

A Dublin man has gone on trial accused of the manslaughter of 12-year-old Stephen Hayes who died when the hut he was sleeping in was allegedly set on fire.

A jury has been sworn in for the trial of a Dublin man accused of the manslaughter of another man in the city over 12 years ago.

The lucky winners of the National Lottery’s Big Money Game TV gameshow jetted off to New York yesterday morning for the trip of a lifetime.

The National Lottery has said it will not reveal the shop where a €94m Euromillions lottery ticket was sold, in an effort to protect the winner.

Ireland’s Lotto game sales fell by more than 10% last year, but they created 23 millionaires.

A man was charged in connection with the death of a schoolboy in Tallaght in 2001.

A Dublin man in his 50s has been remanded in custody, to appear before court again next week, charged with the death of a 12-year-old in Tallaght, 11 years ago.

Funding to good causes by the National Lottery hit a five-year low in 2011 as a result of the economic downturn, forcing consumers to spend less money on Lotto tickets and scratch cards.

THE economic downturn may be hitting household spending hard, but the public found the wherewithal to spend more than €750 million on the Lottery last year, €150m of it on scratch cards.

DUBLIN Marathon Race Director Jim Aughney yesterday had good reason to feel like a lottery millionaire with the announcement that the National Lottery is the new title sponsor for the October Bank Holiday weekend event.

OVER half the population, 2.2 million people, played National Lottery games last year registering sales of €815.1 million, the second highest level ever.

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