Ireland’s newest millionaires went underground today as lotto fever hit Carlow town.

Diamond Green, runner up in the French 2000 Guineas and St James’s Palace Stakes two years ago, has been bought to stand at Ballyhane Stud in Ireland.

MOURNERS wept openly yesterday when a poignant letter from a mother to her only son, killed in a road accident last Saturday, was read out at his funeral Mass.