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Lotto-mania grips the UK, US and Ireland




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There are some tasty lotto jackpots up for grabs around the world today.

Here in Ireland, some lucky punter may walk away with €9.5m tonight, after eight weeks of rollovers.

Meanwhile, the lotto jackpot in the UK has reached £57.8 million (€76.8 million), a tidy sum by all accounts.

But even those two prizes combined are seriously dwarfed by the mother of all jackpots. In the US, the Powerball lotto jackpot has reached an insane $800 million (€732 million), the largest in US lottery history by some difference.

If one single ticket won such prize, the ticket holder would have the choice of taking a cash amount of about $500m, or get an annuity of around $30m for about 30 years. Either option would be fine with us.

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