Hard to be rich - €175m Euromillions win

How our world has changed. Not so very long ago, the Irish winner — Dublin-based, apparently — of the €175m Euromillions draw on Tuesday night could have quietly made an appointment with a fawning bank manager and deposited their winnings in a bank and lived comfortably on the interest.

Even a rate of 1% would have generated an annual income of €1.75m, more than enough to keep the great majority of people in considerable style.