Lotto jackpot heading for around €2.5m next Wednesday
here was no winner of last night’s lotto jackpot, worth around €2m. There were no winners of the Lotto Plus 1 or Plus 2 top prizes either. Wednesday’s jackpot is heading for €2.5m, so get …
Articles by Fernando Sanchez
It’s looking very foggy out there this morning, folks
Halloween night has left a lot of fog lingering around Munster, Leinster, Cavan, Monaghan and Roscommon this morning, making for very hazardous driving conditions indeed. As a result, Met Eireann has issued an orange weather …
Are you a Vodafone user? If so it may be time to worry as up to 2,000 customer accounts have been illegally accessed
Vodafone UK released a statement today to say that some personal details of nearly 2,000 customers may be have been fraudulently viewed. The details include customers’ names, bank sort codes, mobile numbers and the last …
Group affiliated with IS extremists claims responsibility for downing Russian jet over Egypt
The claims were made via the Aamaq website, an online outlet widely considered to be IS’ semi-official news agency. The Metrojet’s Airbus A-321 came down over the Sinai peninsula in Egypt early this morning. The …
Air tragedy: Russian passenger jet with 224 people on board crashes in Egypt’s Sinai peninsula
Flight 7K9268, en route from Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt to St Petersburg in Russia, took off at 5.51am Cairo time (3.51 UK time). It vanished from radar screens less than half an hour later. The …
Euromillions jackpot rolls over to Tuesday’s draw
here was no winner of tonight’s EuroMillions jackpot, worth almost €50m . The numbers drawn were 8, 13, 17, 21, 34 and the lucky stars are 6 and 7. The jackpot will now roll over …
Bank of Ireland payments issue update: Bank says it has “identified” the problem
The payments issue reported by some Bank of Ireland customers has been “identified”, according to a statement made by bank officials. Some customers said this morning that payments due today had not reached their accounts. …
Strangers on a plane: Two almost identical guys board same plane and sit beside each other
In a rather serendipitous chain of events, Scottsman Neil Thomas Douglas and a guy called Lee Beattie could not believe their eyes when they met each other on the same flight, sitting right next to …
IED blast in Wicklow causes damage to two vehicles
An Improvised Explosive Device (IED) blast damaged two cars in a residential area of Dunlavin, Co Wicklow, earlier on today. The bomb squad was called in and the area was sealed off. After carrying out …
Brush with Armageddon: World-killer asteroid to narrowly miss our planet on Halloween
It’s going to be a close call. An asteroid the size of four football pitches is set to zoom past Earth at a mere 300,000 miles (480,000 km). In astronomical terms, this is literally a stone …
