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Rehab Lotteries is bidding to break into the €150 million global online bingo business in an effort to raise funds to develop vital new services for people with disabilities in County Roscommon.

International News Brief: A business studies student from Co Cork, yesterday scooped €150,000, the biggest prize at a €1,000 freeze-out three-day poker tournament in Dublin, Ireland.

International News Brief: Attendances at Irish racecourses reached a new all time high in 2005.

International News Brief: Irish people are gambling over €70m a week and the figure is set to hit the €100m mark within the next two years, new figures reveal.

International News Brief: Gamblers will have access to unlimited free drinks at the new Sporting Emporium casino in Dublin, it emerged today.

International News Brief: Bookmaker Paddy Power today hailed the online gambling craze as it generated most of its profits away from its high street betting shops for the first time.

International News Brief: People who are caught up in the gambling fever of the Galway races can fall prey to respectable looking men in suits who ‘rob’ punters of €50 or €100 a time.

Gaming Corporation plc announces the acquisition of www.casino.ie, its largest affiliate partner.

Parlay Entertainment has completed a software license agreement with New Media Lottery Services, Inc. who will launch an online bingo game as an expansion of the Irish Rehab Lotteries' existing online lottery site.

GTECH Ireland Operations Ltd., has been named one of the 50 Best Companies to Work for in Ireland by The Great Place to Work Institute of Ireland.

International News Brief: A lucky Irish man quit work yesterday to pick up a cheque for a lottery win worth more than €1 million.

International News Brief: Commercial casinos are illegal in Ireland, but if you fancy a flutter on games ranging from poker to blackjack, you will find no shortage of gambling clubs in cities around the country.

Top poker players will battle it out at the Merrion Club Casino in Dublin for the inaugural Gaming Club World Poker Championships.

International News Brief: Irish trained Hardy Eustace caused a major upset by holding off Rooster Booster to win the Champion Hurdle at Cheltenham.

International News Brief: Bookmaker Paddy Power has reported strong profit growth last year, despite an early season profit warning.