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A GUARANTEED €100 million jackpot is up for grabs in tonight’s EuroMillions draw.
That’s not by any means a record – a couple from the UK won a prize of €190 million back in 2012. Limerick woman Dolores McNamara holds the record for the largest ever Irish win – collecting a cheque for over €115 million in July 2005.
Tickets need to be bought before 7.30pm to have a chance of winning this evening – so apologies if you’re reading this later.
Statistically, of course, your chances of winning any sort of significant prize don’t amount to a hill of beans (you’d be better off putting your money in an envelope, then opening that envelope, and carrying on living your life).
Just for fun though, what would you spend the money on?
A solid gold hat? Your own personal zoo? Or would you, as Mr Byrnes once said, simply ‘throw it on the pile?’
Let us know, in the comments section below.
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Kids should b outside playing real games not on Xboxes PlayStations online games it will effect there minds if it keeps up there’s going to be a lot of mental health in the future generations…
@Rusty3578: It’s their!!
@Paul Byrne: so sad Paul hope u find happier times
I wonder who wrote the exact same report about television 70 years ago.
@Winston Smith: lol you think people could afford a TV 70 years ago in Ireland, you must come from money!!!!
@Winston Smith: TV is not the same as tablets.
Tablets are far more addictive because you can interact and you can get rewarded in things like games,
To try suggest TV is the same shows a lack of understanding of the issue and how addictions work
Or he might be addicted to following strangers into lifts to strike up conversations? They can’t get away from him in a lift ;-)
@Barry Somers: Might not be the same but telly is massively addictive, try and give it up for a month
@Barry Somers:
Yup.
Anyway, the telly wouldn’t fit in the schoolbag!
Technology is no different to anything else we do in our lives as far as addiction is concerned. You drink to much you may become an alcoholic, you eat to much you become obese. Everything in our lives needs to be proportionate, and parents need to teach their kids this simple fact, and enforce some ground rules on usage. At this stage in our advancements with technology, there is no point in expecting children to ignore it all. They are growing up in a world that we couldn’t have imagined at their age.
Day 1 of no Facebook.
@Harry Trafford: you used your Facebook account to comment
I would agree with many of his comments but where he says the devices should not be banned altogether, well it’s horses for courses. Kids can get addicted to video games and if kids show definite signs of addiction they should of course be totally banned from content and devices indefinitely in their own best interests. You wouldn’t tell a crack addict that they could hang out with other crack addicts for an hour a day.
The best way to determine if something is an addiction is to look at outcomes. If kids are failing exams or becoming socially reclusive and isolated, then their behaviour may accurately be described as addictive.
Incredible insightful research – LOL! An ‘expert’ has warned, for fxxksake it’s just basic commonsense. In the 1980’s my dad used to say John, “if you keep staring at the TV screen all day, you’ll go blind”. It was great advice: it scared the shite out of me and stopped me watching Bosco!
@John Caplis: Yeah, but to be fair, most kids are smarter than that.
@John Caplis:
The threat of going blind didn’t stop me looking at ……. never mind!
One thing that really annoys me is the device being used as a pacifier. If a family is out for dinner and the child is using a device they’re not paying any attention. They’re not seeing how people interact. They’re also missing out on the big conversation a family will have every day around the dinner table.
Good! I’ll be training my little man to be a tradesman like myself and when google won’t fix it he can rob all the computer psychos he wants!
Yawn.
When my mum was young her folks were concerned that she will loose her eyesight because of too much book reading. It was a common knowledge that too much reading will criple ones eyes.
Todays 50-60 year olds can see just fine.
Then there was a wide spread concern that kids spend too much time watching TV. It was common knowledge, that the likes of MTV will at least give you brain damage. And yet nothing happened.
Todays 40-50 year olds are just fine.
After TV there was computers, everyone was certain that the late 90s generation will be lost as they will have no social skills due to all the time spent at the PC.
I honestly dont see anything wrong with todays 30-40 year olds.
Anyone else sees the trend with the smartphone scaremongering? :)
No access to devices is the answer for small kids.
A lot of people are comparing this to TV but all kids didn’t have a portable TV with them everywhere they went. With our phones and tablets, it is with us 24/7 which means there is no break from it.
100%…agree.
I think he exaggerates by claiming smartphone users can become “addicted” to their devices but there are certainly physical issues which can arise from prolonged usage such as postural and eyesight difficulties.
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