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Lotto bosses reveal county where €1million Daily Million ticket sold as players urged to check slips

LOTTO bosses have revealed the county where a Daily Million ticket worth €1MILLION was sold.

A player in Co Cork has become Ireland’s latest millionaire after winning the top prize of €1,000,000 in yesterday’s 9pm Daily Million draw.

Pile of 10, 20, and 50 Euro banknotes.
Players are being urged to check their tickets carefully

The winner purchased their Quick Pick ticket on the day of the draw. This win comes hot on the heels of Friday’s Daily Million Plus win, where a Dublin Player won an incredible €500,000.  

The winning numbers on Saturday, March 29’s 9pm Daily Million draw were: 4, 6, 8, 11, 14, 19 and the bonus was 16.  

The National Lottery has confirmed that the store location where the winning Daily Million top prize was purchased will be announced on Tuesday, April 1.

Adding to the night of big wins, a Co Cavan player scooped an incredible €79,901 after matching 5 numbers and the bonus in last night’s (Saturday, 29th March) main Lotto draw.

The Cavan player purchased their Quick Pick ticket on the day of the draw from Tarpey’s Supervalu, Cavan, Co. Cavan.  

The winning numbers in last night’s (Saturday, 29th March) main Lotto draw were: 14, 24, 30, 34, 42, 45 and the Bonus was 19.  

The National Lottery is urging all players in the Cork and Cavan area to check their tickets carefully and if you’re holding the winning ticket, be sure to contact the National Lottery prize claims team on 1800 666 222 or email claims@lottery.ie to arrange the collection of your prize.    

National Lottery spokesperson, Darragh O’Dwyer said: “It’s been a phenomenal start to the year with 9 National Lottery Millionaires being made so far in 2025, with our latest millionaire winning the Daily Million top prize of €1,000,000.

“To have 9 National Lottery millionaire in just three months is remarkable, and we’re delighted for our latest top prize winner who has just become Ireland’s newest millionaire.

“It’s an exciting time for players, and we look forward to hearing how this one plans to celebrate!” 

Meanwhile, another player is celebrating after winning a life-changing Daily Million Plus prize worth €500,000.

The Plus player bought their winning Quick Pick ticket on the day of the draw from Tesco, Stillorgan Shopping Centre, Stillorgan, Co. Dublin.  

The numbers for Friday’s 2pm Daily Million Plus draw were: 17, 22, 23, 25, 30, 37 and the bonus was 32. 

And players are being urged to check their tickets after Wednesday’s €4million Lotto win.

The numbers in the main draw on Wednesday, March 26, were 03, 08, 18, 20, 30, 43 and the bonus was 46.

There was no winner of the Lotto Plus 1 top prize.

The numbers drawn were 04, 09, 13, 37, 38 and 46 and the bonus was 15.

There was also no winner of the Lotto Plus 2 draw.

The numbers for that were 04, 25, 27, 32, 38, 42 and the bonus was 30.

The winning raffle number was 1687.

There were 61 winners of the Raffle Prize, receiving €500 each.

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Rangers boss Barry Ferguson leaves Chris Sutton CONFUSED as Celtic legend claims ‘I still have massive doubts’

THE latest performance from Barry Ferguson’s team has raised a lot of questions, despite coming away with three points.

Rangers travelled to face Dundee and found themselves looking down-and-out and ruing missed chances at 3-1 down, but turned it around and won 4-3 at the death.

29.03.2025 Dundee v Rangers: Cyriel Dessers with his matchwinning goal
Cyriel Dessers snatched a win in the final minutes
16.09.2023 St Johnstone v Rangers: Sky Sports pundits Chris Sutton and Kris Boyd
Pundits Chris Sutton, left, and Kris Boyd were left puzzled by the performance
29.03.2025 Dundee v Rangers: Barry Ferguson at full time
Interim manager Barry Ferguson’s post-match comments also ‘confused’ Sutton

But it was interim boss Barry Ferguson‘s words post-match that had pundit and Celtic legend Chris Sutton puzzled.

Speaking on Sky Sports, he said: “When they come up against Bilbao in the Europa they will be crucified if they gave up opportunities like they have done in the last six games, and it’s something Barry must be aware that they need to improve.

“I was really, sort of, confused by some of things Barry said there. He was certain a few weeks ago they would have lost that game, I don’t know how he can be certain of that.

“He sort of came across as he’d cracked it when he spoke about old bad habits creeping back in again. Because they beat Celtic it doesn’t mean they should be getting the bunting out.

“That was a one off, they did well to beat Fenerbahce, I think there is a lot of work for Barry and his coaching team to do.

“He is coming out and talking about things turning around, and I think that is very hard to judge at this moment in time. I still have massive doubts about Rangers. Defensively, and mentality-wise as well.”

A win is a win, but with Celtic beating Hearts prior to the Dens Park clash the gap at the top remains 13 points.

Ferguson’s words after the victory were brutally honest. He said: “Really happy with the three points, but I saw so many old habits creeping in. I’m not going to allow that to happen.

“We’ve got a full week now and that’s something we’ll look at. At stages of the game I was baffled.

“They showed character though, they never gave in. I just felt when we got the goal to go 3-2 that we could get three points.

“They were warned you have to be physical and match your opponent and we never did that in the first half. I made changes but I shouldn’t have to.

“We can’t be happy with the performance. I need to get to the bottom of it and I will get to the bottom of it.”

Cyriel Dessers‘ late winner put him in an illustrious club at Ibrox alongside Kris Boyd, and the Gers legend was less than impressed with the sides display.

The former striker said: “I think [Barry Ferguson] is frustrated, he is angry, that his team were able to come away from home and score four goals but have just been able to win a game of football.

“Because the defending, for some experienced players some of the times, it is terrible. Caught on the wrong side, I think a lot of them depend on pace.

“When you look at the Dundee front three, they caused Rangers all sorts of problems there tonight.

“And it’s nothing other than just being willing to run.

“Rangers against teams where they feel as if they need to be fully concentrated, they’re ready, they’re up for it.

“Games where they think they can switch on and off, they’re not good enough to switch on and off. And this season has proven that.

“You’ve got to praise the mentality in one way, in terms of finding a way to win a game of football.

“But flip it the other way, you can’t just say ‘right I’m going to turn up for some games in then not turn up for others’, because the games that Rangers have lost and the goals they’re losing, that’s mentality.”

The Blues next welcome Hibernian in the league before the first part of their blockbuster European tie with Spanish side Athletic Bilbao.

Keep up to date with ALL the latest news and transfers at the Scottish Sun football page

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Inside the Ocean’s Eleven-style $30m cash heist that rocked US with fears culprit will stay on run as long as DB Cooper

THE methodical Ocean’s Eleven-style heist where burglars stole as much as $30 million in cash from a money storage facility could take years to crack, a former FBI agent has told The U.S. Sun.

Like something out of a Hollywood film script, thieves managed to sneak into the Gardaworld building in San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles, on the evening of Easter Sunday 2024, undetected and without triggering any alarms.

Illustration of GardaWorld building heist, showing suspected entry and escape routes.
GardaWorld armored trucks parked outside their Los Angeles office.
Armored trucks parked outside the offices of GardaWorld in San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles, in April 2024
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Aerial view of a damaged wall at a money storage facility after a $30 million heist.
The hole on the south side of the building that had been boarded up
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The elaborate, well-thought-out plan resulted in one of the largest cash heists in the history of Los Angeles.

FBI officials believe the stealthy suspects used a ladder to scale the building’s roof, where they gained access to the facility through a hatch, before entering the vault area where the money was stored.

On the morning of April 1, 2024, aerial footage captured an apparent hole on the south side of the building that had been boarded up, as a pile of debris laid on the grass.

Terry Rankhorn, a former FBI special agent who spent decades investigating cyber, fraud, and wire fraud cases, told The U.S. Sun the hole in the wall was likely the thieves’ exit point.

“They probably had hand carts on a truck outside,” Rankhorn speculated.

“They pulled up, shuttled the money out on that and made away with it. In Los Angeles, that’s reasonably close proximity to the Mexican border.

“If I were guessing, the smart move would have been to get it across the border because it’s probably going to be easier to get there.

“You can’t just walk into a bank with 25 million dollars in money and deposit it without drawing a significant amount of scrutiny.”

Rankhorn said it could be years before names connected to the March 31, 2024, heist begin to emerge.

“The people who did it will be discovered, but we just have to wait and be patient with it,” he added.

“We can’t put a time or say, if you haven’t found him in a year, you haven’t found him. Well, that’s just not the case.

“[The FBI] looked for D.B. Cooper for decades and never stopped looking until the point where he couldn’t reasonably still be alive.”

D.B. COOPER MYSTERY

The unsolved mystery surrounding infamous hijacker D.B. Cooper began on November 24, 1971, when a middle-aged man identifying himself as Dan Cooper purchased a one-way $20 ticket from Northwest Orient flight from Portland, Oregon, to Seattle.

Carrying a black attache case and a brown paper bag, Cooper boarded Flight 305 sometime after 2:30 pm local time, took his seat in the last row, 18E, and ordered himself a drink.

Sometime after takeoff, at around 3 pm, Cooper handed a note to a flight attendant, identified as 23-year-old Florence Schaffner, sitting in a jump seat behind him, revealing that he had a bomb in his suitcase.

The mild-mannered hijacker requested four parachutes and $200,000 in twenty-dollar bills in exchange for the 36 other passengers on board.

The president of Northwest Orient authorized the payment of the ransom and ordered the six crew onboard to comply with Cooper’s orders.

For approximately two hours, Flight 305 circled above Seattle to give authorities enough time to scramble together the ransom money and the parachutes, and mobilize other emergency personnel.

Upon landing, per Cooper’s instructions, one representative from the airline was permitted to board the plane. They dropped off the items and the cash, and the passengers were permitted to disembark.

The plane was then refueled and Cooper ordered the pilots to fly southeast in the direction of Mexico City at the minimum airspeed possible without stalling the aircraft.

Flight 305 took off for a second time at 7.40pm and, shortly after, Cooper ordered all remaining crew to stay in the cockpit as he made his way towards the aft ramp in the tail of the plane.

One stewardess caught a glimpse of Cooper standing in the aisle, tying what appeared to be the bag of money around his waist.

That was the last anyone ever saw of Cooper. He’d later become known as DB Cooper when a journalist at the time accidentally mistyped Dan as DB in a report and the name stuck.

A little after 8 pm, somewhere over southwest Washington, a light flashed up on the instrument panel in the cockpit, indicating the rear exit door had been opened.

With that, Cooper was gone, parachuting out into the stormy night sky with his ransom and the briefcase and brown paper bag he’d boarded the plane with.

Despite a massive search, no trace of Cooper or his parachutes was ever found.

Sketch of D.B. Cooper, the suspected skyjacker.
An FBI drawing of infamous commercial airline hijacker D. B. Cooper, who parachuted from a Northwest Airlines 727 jet in November 1971 after collecting a $200,000 ransom
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Aerial view of GardaWorld armored trucks at a crime scene where $30 million was stolen.
Gardaworld armored trucks parked in the parking lot of the storage facility in San Fernando Valley
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‘INFINITE MEMORY’

Rankhorn, who spent 21 years in the FBI, said that despite the meticulous heist, the suspects – like DB Cooper – will never be out of the woods and will eventually make a mistake.

“These people, congratulations, you have 20 to 30 years of looking over your shoulder and more than likely you will be caught in the end,” the former federal agent told The U.S. Sun.

“They may think that, Ok, I’ve waited a year, I’ve waited two years, now I can start buying luxury items. Well, if the FBI is involved, the FBI has infinite memory.

“They never forget the people that they’ve been looking for. They’ve been looking for people for 30 years and sometimes will find them.

“So, you’re never as a criminal out of the woods. If you’re involved in this case, you have to look over your shoulder for literally the rest of your life.

“There is no grace period. There’s no statute of limitations on this.”

Rankhorn continued, “In any criminal endeavor, the number of people that you involve in it exponentially increases your chance of discovery.

“There was a famous pirate named Captain Kidd who famously said three people can keep a secret when two of them are dead.

“And what that means is that when people execute a crime like this, a really spectacular crime, people like to talk.

“And oftentimes, the criminal pathology, the people that are drawn to this life of crime, they have impulse control.

“So, they’re going to be more likely to either brag out of ego or brag when they’ve had too many drinks under their belt.”

There was a famous pirate named Captain Kidd who famously said three people can keep a secret when two of them are dead.

Terry Rankhorn, former FBI special agent

Rankhorn reckons the problem the thieves will encounter is how to spend the stolen cash.

“Their biggest problem comes in on how to actually use the money,” he added.

“And that sounds like a silly statement, but there’s a great TV series called Ozark, where that in there a money launderer tells some criminals who came into quite a bit a cash and said, well, what you have is a lifetime supply of groceries because you can’t carry a suitcase around of money and just pay with everything in cash.

“We are in an increasingly more and more digital economy where it’s fairly rare to pay cash for things.

“And some things are fairly or reasonably impossible to pay in cash.

“You don’t buy a house in cash, you don’t buy a nice, expensive car with cash.

“You don’t rent cars with cash. You don’t buy airline tickets with cash.”

However, Rankhorn suspects the burglars have already integrated the cash into the banking system through money launderers, which he believes they set up before the heist.

“They will probably sit on this substantially for probably a year. In the meantime, they’re probably already have integrated it into the banking system because as a criminal, you don’t want to sit on a fungible asset,” he said.

“Liquid assets like cash are dangerous because other criminals will come and kill you and take it, or your colleagues will kill you and take it.

“So, they probably have it already integrated into the banking system, if they have any brains at all. And they’re just waiting, abiding their time to try to begin spending.”

The FBI’s Los Angeles Field Office told The U.S. Sun the investigation is ongoing, adding it would be inappropriate to comment.

The Los Angeles Police Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Bombshell DB Cooper clue could finally solve case

A BOMBSHELL new clue could be the key to cracking the notorious DB Cooper case after children of suspect Richard Floyd McCoy II came forward in 2024.

They believe they have proof their dad was DB Cooper, as the parachute used to escape from the plane is still in their garage.

Chante and Richard III ‘Rick’ McCoy contacted YouTuber Dan Gryder, inviting him into their home in 2022.

Gryder has been investigating the infamous case for years and had previously reached out to the siblings.

Speaking to Cowboy State Daily, Gryder believes that a modified military parachute in the McCoys’ garage could be the real deal.

Gryder said: “That rig is literally one in a billion.”

And the two McCoy siblings agree, however they refrained from coming forward with their speculation until their mother died, as they believed she was complicit in her husband’s crime.

Many believe McCoy is the infamous hijacker after he jumped from a United Airlines flight flying over Utah in 1972, after $500,000.

Gryder also revealed that the FBI has contacted him after detailing his investigation on YouTube.

The amateur investigator claimed FBI agents met with him and Rick in 2023 to take the harness and parachute into evidence, as well as a logbook Chante found that aligned with the hijacking case.

Following the handover, an FBI agent called Rick a month later to ask for permission to search the family property.

According to Rick, FBI agents with the help of local authorities thoroughly searched “every nook and cranny.”

He said: “It’s a good sign that they’re taking this seriously.”

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Major supermarket reduces price of large Easter eggs – but shoppers say the cost is still ‘daylight robbery’

A MAJOR supermarket has slashed the price of its large Easter eggs – but shoppers are complaining the cost is still far too high.

Tesco has cut the prices of its largest eggs for Clubcard holders as part of a promotion.

Assortment of chocolate Easter eggs and candies.
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The Easter eggs have been reduced but shoppers say the prices are still too high[/caption]

A selection of its premium eggs are now priced at either £12 down from £17.50, or £15 down from £20 for those with the loyalty card.

They include the Lindt Milk Chocolate Egg With Lindor Milk Truffels 348G, which is now £15, and the Ferrero Rocher Golden Easter Egg With White Chocolate 250G, which is now £12.

Clubcard holders can also get the Raffaello White Chocolate Easter Egg 235g for £12 instead of £17.50.

But shoppers on the Snack Reviews Facebook group have hit out at the prices despite the reductions.

After one group member shared a photo of the deal, others flooded it with angry comments.

One person said: “What they are charging for Easter eggs this year is a disgrace. I know the price of chocolate has gone up, but honestly. I also know we don’t have to buy them, but I feel sorry for the parents of young children who feel pressured to pay it.”

Another said: “Wouldn’t even pay the reduced price … day light robbery for loads of packaging and very little chocolate!!”

A third person said: “Not a reduction . They’re just trying to look less ridiculous.”

Some people even said they wouldn’t be buying Easter eggs this year because of the price.

A spokesperson for Tesco told The Sun: “We have Easter eggs to suit every pocket at Tesco, with full-sized eggs for as little as £1.50 and Clubcard Price offers often available across many eggs in the range.”

Although the Facebook post singled out Tesco, the prices for large Easter eggs are similar at other supermarkets.

Inflation has pushed up the price of grocery items, and chocolate in particular has got expensive.

The Ferrero Rocher Easter Egg Milk Chocolate & Hazelnut is cheapest at Asda, where it’s £9.98.

Elsewhere it’s £12.42 at Ocado, £14 at Morrisons and £17 at Waitrose.

The Lindor Heart Milk Chocolate Easter Egg 400g is £20 at Ocado, or £25 at Morrisons and Waitrose.

Meanwhile the Raffaello White Chocolate Easter Egg with Pralines 235g is £16 in Sainsbury’s or £10.75 with Nectar.

At Waitrose it’s £12.50 down from £17.

There are also options for cheaper Easter eggs at Tesco.

The Milky Bar Easter Egg 72g, Kit Kat Chunky Easter Egg 110g, and Maltesers White Chocolate Mini Bunnies Easter Egg 100g are all £1.50 each.

The Yorkie Milk Chocolate Easter Egg 196g is £4 or £2.95 with a Clubcard.

If you want a cheaper Ferrero Rocher option, the Classic Milk Chocolate Egg 100g is £4.50 or £3.50 with a Clubcard.

Alternatively if you want to find out the cheapest shops to buy your Easter eggs, we’ve put together a handy guide here.

How to save money at Easter

Sun Savers Editor Lana Clements shares her tips on how to save cash at Easter...

Stock up on eggs – The best value Easter eggs typically sell out by the time the long weekend comes around so by in advance and stash in a cupboard so that you don’t get tempted to nibble.

Cut entertaining costs – If you are hosting family or friends over the holiday, consider asking them to bring a dish such as dessert, or a couple of bottles to cut costs. Use a price comparison site to find the lowest prices on the food and any other decorations or gifts that you need. Try PriceRunner or Trolley.co.uk.

Plan ahead – School holidays combined with gift can make Easter a pricey time of year, especially if you have children. Create a budget ahead of time and look for ways to keep it in check. You can go for free days out by making a scavenge hunts and limit the number of

Flash sales – Make a list of what you need for Easter and look out for flash sales or promotions from supermarkets on items that you need.

Cashback – Use cashback sites to get a little kick back on any spending that you are doing. Try Topcashback or Quidco.

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