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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.
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.
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.
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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 ...
EuroMillions [a] is a transnational lottery that requires seven correct numbers to win the jackpot, which consists of 5 main numbers and 2 Lucky Star Numbers. It was launched on 7 February 2004 by France 's Française des Jeux , Spain 's Loterías y Apuestas del Estado and the United Kingdom 's Allwyn .
Since 1989 RTÉ have produced a game show with the Irish National Lottery. Winning Streak was the first such show originally hosted by Mike Murphy, who had had previous success with his chat show The Live Mike and the Irish version of Candid Camera. He had also present Mike's Micro Quiz a family quiz show that included a "hi-tech" games machine ...
An Post held the licence granted by the Minister for Finance to run the National Lottery through its subsidiary, An Post National Lottery Company until February 2014. All employees of An Post National Lottery Company were seconded from An Post, and as such were employed and paid by An Post rather than by the subsidiary.