A glance at the week that was
Cash prize
The tabloids were a tad unkind in calling him "Dopey" Dermot Finglas (below), but the Drogheda man was the lucky winner of €350,000 in the Lotto. Not such a big deal, except that he'd left the ticket behind in the shop and only the good deed of assistant Tom Heavey made sure he was tracked down. Finglas said he would look after Heavey, and the country got a kick out of the good news story. It was also the main lottery story in a week when someone won €29m in the Euromillions draw.
Prize catch
Another big winner was a 70-year-old angler, Joe Waldis (right), who has caught the biggest fish ever landed by a rod and line off the Irish coast. Caught off Co Clare, the whopper was a sixgill shark, and it weighed in at 450kg, with a length of almost four metres. “I still can’t believe it,” said Waldis. “When I go to sleep at night, I still can’t believe it. It was the fight of my life.” As for the shark, it’s not had such a good ending. It’s meat is now for sale in Carrigaholt.
We now know
Every censusbetween 1926 and 1991 is now available on the Central Statistics Office website
Italian airline Alitalia's in-flight magazine forgot to include Sicilyin a map of the Mediterranean. The airline has apologised
A 2,500-year-old bird's nesthas been found on a Greenland cliff. It is still being used by gyrfalcons
The numbers
1 tonne
amount of cocaine found in 20 shark carcasses on a cargo ship going from Mexico to the US
2 days
The length of time a basset hound, Harry, was trapped on a cliff ledge near Kinnego Bay in Co Donegal, before being rescued
56
Number of stars tattooed on to the face of Belgian woman Kimberley Vlaeminck. She says she asked for three, but fell asleep
"I want to make sure it solves their problem without creating problems for anyone else"
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Swedish PM Fredrik Reinfeldton the EU's decision to offer Ireland new Lisbon Treaty guarantees