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.

A mother of three, jailed yesterday for smuggling cocaine hidden in the soles of her shoes, claimed in court that her lover gave her the footwear.

As energy costs soar, so too does the demand for the type of innovative energy-saving solutions being developed by Dublin start-up company Wattics, which aims to revolutionise this market.