The Archive · 1940

Biggest Lottery a Casualty

For the first tiñe for ten years there will be no draw on the Derby by the Irish Hospitals Trust. The world's biggest lottery is a war] Casualty. "There have been 29 of these Over Las try in the world that has not participated. The office staff have been known to handle 35 currencies in a Pioneers of this gigantic gamble [were four strangely assorted men whose careers have been remarkable.

They were Joe McGreth, a former Cabinet Minister in the Free State Government; R, J. Duggan, a well known Irish bookmaker, Spencer Freeman, an English Army officer. and Jack O'Sheehan, who has been solicitor's-clerk, journalist, music-hall artist, song writer and Sinn Fein organized in the Black-and-Tan conflict and the Irish civil war.

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