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The National Lottery (Irish: An Crannchur Náisiúnta) is the state-licensed lottery of Ireland. Established in 1986 to raise funds for good causes, it began operations on 23 March 1987 when it sold its first scratchcards. It launched the weekly drawing game Lotto the following year, holding the first draw on 16 April 1988.
A Prize Bond is a lottery bond, a non-interest bearing security issued on behalf of the Irish Minister for Finance by the Prize Bond Company DAC. Funds raised are used to offset government borrowing and are refundable to the bond owner on demand. Interest is returned to bond owners via prizes which are distributed by random selection of bonds.
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In 1986, the Irish government created a new public lottery, and the company failed to secure the new contract to manage it. The final sweepstake was held in January 1986 and the company was unsuccessful in a licence bid for the Irish National Lottery, which was won by An Post later that year. The company went into voluntary liquidation in March ...
Winning Streak is an Irish television game show that was produced for the National Lottery, and broadcast from 21 September 1990 to 21 March 2020 on RTÉ One.Produced in RTE's Studio 1 at their Television Centre in Dublin, the series featured contestants qualified via National Lottery scratchcards, who received the chance to win cash and other prizes.
The Irish Lotto has operated since September 2018. When a player buys a ticket in the Irish Lotto, The Lottery Office purchases a matching ticket in the Irish National Lottery’s ‘Lotto’. To play Irish Lotto, players choose 6 numbers from a pool of 1 to 47. The Irish Lotto has two draws each week, on Thursdays and Sundays, AEST.
NSD: European Election Database – Ireland Archived 23 June 2014 at the Wayback Machine publishes regional level election data; allows for comparisons of election results, 1992–2007; ElectionsIreland.org, produced in association with Seán Donnelly, author of various books on Irish elections
Many English-language newspapers have Irish-language columns, including: An Phoblacht; Irish Independent – on Wednesdays includes the newspaper Seachtain; Connaught Telegraph; Evening Echo – weekly Irish-language segment; Irish Echo; Irish Daily Star (column on Saturdays) Irish News; The Irish Times