Privacy plea as Dolores pockets cheque

THE Irish winner of Europe’s biggest-ever lotto jackpot has made an impassioned plea for space and privacy as she comes to term with the unprecedented scale of her newfound wealth.

Dolores McNamara, 45, finally arrived in Dublin yesterday to collect a cheque for over €115 million - a week after she first learned of her life-changing good fortune.

Over the past 48 hours, Dolores got a taste of what life as Ireland’s most famous lotto winner will be like, once the media became aware of her secret hideaway in a Cork hotel. She and other family members subsequently engaged in a game of cat and mouse with photographers as they were traced to a hotel on the Naas Road in Dublin on Wednesday evening.