You're as likely to win the jackpot as you are to die in a plane crash. And yet nearly half the population of Ireland play the lotto regularly. So, what keeps the us wishing for, well, the luck of the Irish and could winning big be bad news? Newstalk's Sarah Madden reports.

Gareth Mullins, Executive Chef of The Anantara Marker Hotel talks us through how to make slow cooked shank of lamb, parmesan polenta winter greens.