{"id":552987,"date":"2026-07-16T16:49:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T16:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/552987\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T16:49:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T16:49:08","slug":"the-lotto-is-killing-off-two-balls-and-adding-an-extra-draw-on-mondays-the-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/552987\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lotto is killing off two balls and adding an extra draw on Mondays &#8211; The Journal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMihgFBVV95cUxPYmRNNTFYUVY5cVd0dVpUWnFKdElKNklJbmQzNTRFYXJ3WG5FMS1fdVZiUVVOUU5pWXRBVDU1Q2loZHBaVUNiTUUtbUpzUnhUeE9zZXBja2lBdUZBNFdJUDNIWVVERTY1RVM0aGkyYUNUdEU2clJwUDRoOE1DVlpqQzVMMHdYZw?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Lotto is killing off two balls and adding an extra draw on Mondays<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Journal<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMieEFVX3lxTE9GWmM2YVRQUnNVWnVfcHRCQlVKR0ExSmFKNl8tLWZ1Q3hiUVU4Xy16bnB2MkZIN3RsOVVrRXgyTTZPUDJ4SzZZX1lPMmlaMGJYSllWd2RWemkyLWlYdkZCNE40SElZTnZvTUZxWFQyRmlRVjRvcUwtaw?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">National Lottery drops balls in first update for eight years<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;RTE.ie<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMitAFBVV95cUxOcjBDalpqekp2Z3gtMGw1YjQ2eXR2LUd1cU1WQUJ4MlprZkVpTTNOcFNrNnRPcWFfTVZvb1RNMnZTWm1mNEl4Z3QzZ1JzQVRBZ2dpSmdDVmdXNEF6R1o2ZVpQTEdhZVc0SUFwemJuUmFzcS0zZWM2TngzV3EwODVaLXdzTW1sVnlwVVVKYW93elNsUlA0VEVsNmtidl95SGd2cEJRT0Z4UzI2NFZaUU4xRGdDaW4?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">National Lottery Unveils Exciting Changes to Lotto &amp; Lotto Plus Games!<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Irish National Lottery<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMi9gFBVV95cUxNT2ZWdVZ4QjRJRHVEbkE0N0hBdTdBTkZxcndoZDMxVzI4UmtzREY3eW5jMjBfRFltbTRGakV6QUdDZlhmLU03WXUtdmxSRTdERmFzUEFCdGc0QkhOYlktVjYtTjhBY2V5SEczS3dqcENySTJfVWx1aE5LOUJ0bFJUbVNzMFFBVndqaDNLNGM2TGJnRFVzN3NEVnVESFdFU2laQmMwZ0NBUWR0NjRIc0tVVW95cmlLdGFMYW80NzJJdEo5M1JWa3ZIeE14NVpmdmgzckNzeXM3Z3I0VVZJelFBYk5welgtcUlrVHNJV3ZlU0xUZWZPQXc?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Two balls to be removed from Lotto and Lotto Plus draws as National Lottery aims to \u2018create more millionaires\u2019<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Irish Independent<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMilgFBVV95cUxPU1NWV1c1SVdmVVNWM19lcVNmZ0xOZThNNjZscU54al9TcHN1WklXM0V4ZHJuYXgzYnkwVmpYbUtvYk1rTTVSeEx6LUl0YnVPZEZHV0ctYTVSN0Fway13aDllNFF1aS1aSkxrcE5zNUJ2clgtSFlKeGV2a1VXQ0lTNGMxRjRKUnR4eEtDRTNmSUFlcXpOU3c?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">National Lotto announced major changes to Lotto draws<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;FM104<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Lotto is killing off two balls and adding an extra draw on Mondays&nbsp;&nbsp;The JournalNational Lottery drops balls&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":552988,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[233963,233964,72,233965,61,60,32603,15422,15423,9077,233966,233967],"class_list":["post-552987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-balls-dropped","tag-balls-out","tag-business","tag-drop-the-balls","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-irish-lotto","tag-it-could-be-you","tag-lotto","tag-national-lottery","tag-new-balls-please","tag-what-are-the-odds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=552987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/552988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}