From time to time, like most adult human beings, I have been known to idly fantasise about winning the lottery. Preferably the Euromillions, since that gives you so much more money, and therefore expands the range of things you could do with it. I would, obviously, invest a substantial sum in this company. I would also probably buy a second, and perhaps a third home, in parts of the world with better weather. There would certainly be a ludicrously expensive and comfortable car. And there would be gifts to family, friends, and charities close to my heart.
Winning the lottery is one of those things that is never likely to happen to me, but we must still not exclude the possibility that it could. We must also not exclude the possibility that our country could win the lottery: We do not know for example that revolutionary technology will not emerge, and that it becomes almost entirely reliant on a rare mineral subsequently discovered to exist in world-leading deposits underneath the fields of Leitrim. Such an event, though highly unlikely, could turn this little country into a kind of Atlantic version of a gulf oil state, swimming in cash and the idle rich.
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