D Friday, October 16, 2009 METRO 4 0 million riches beyond your wildest dreams www.lottery.ie This weeks EuroMillions jackpot is an estimated... Sales close 7.30 pm See the draw TG4 Friday 9.25 pm METRO PhOtO challenge TODAYS TOP SHOT: Title .......Duck! by Peter John Kelly Metro readers from around the globe are invited to take part in one of the worlds largest photo competitions. This year the themes are: People, Places and Climate Change. For your chance to see your work in print around the world and win one of three trips for two to a Metro city of your choice, simply submit your photographs by Sunday October 18. Upload your photos now at www.metrophotochallenge. com/ie make huge savings: There is no more important building in the health area than this project. It is a priority for funding and funding is provided in the capital plan, she said. I might add that there will be considerable revenue saving by bringing the three hospitals together, whether its back office area, catering area, our estimate is 25million a year. An associated ambulance and ur- gent care centre will also open at Tal- laght Hospital in 2013. Taoiseach Brian Cowen insisted one childrens hospital on the Mater site was the best way forward. It is quite clear that, in a city the size of Dublin, we do not need to have three childrens hospitals, the Taoi- seach said. This is no reflection on the work of the three hospitals whose services will combine to make up the new paediatric hospital. The new childrens hospital is being designed by the Murray OLaoire/ Brian OConnell/NBBJ consortium, which has experience in healthcare projects including major hospitals in Tullamore and Limerick. Irish date: Whitney Whitney to play Dublin gig in 2010 SOUL queen Whitney Houston will perform one night in Dublin during her European tour, it was announced yesterday. The singer, whose latest album will be released on Monday, will entertain fans in the O2 on Saturday April 17 next year. It will be her first major tour in more than 11 years. I am putting together a great show and cannot wait to perform the songs from my new album I Look To You along with some of your favourites, said Houston, who is one of the best- selling female artists of all time and has sold over 140million albums worldwide. The 46-year-old, currently on the comeback trail after battling drug addiction, will give her first UK television performance in 12 years on Sunday night on The X Factor. The Irish date will be in the middle of five shows in the UK. Tickets, priced from 76.25 to 106.25, will go on sale next Thursday from Ticketmaster. helpisodes to help you quit smoking THE EU has launched a new Internet series aimed at combating smoking. Helpisodes hopes to increase young peoples awareness of tobacco issues, encourage them to quit, not take up smoking, and to increase their awareness of the dangers of passive smoking. The aim of the Helpisodes is to communicate with young people in a language they understand and appreciate, the EU said. By ed CarTy New childrens hospital will save 25m a year THE new childrens hospital will open in five years and save 25mil- lion a year from the health budget, the government claimed yesterday. Work will begin next year on The National Paediatric Hospital at the Mater Hospital site, the new home for the three existing childrens units, Crumlin, Temple Street and Tallaght. When completed in 2014, the 750million project will have space for up to 399 single beds for sick chil- dren, 800 car parking places and sleep-over rooms for parents. Health Minister Mary Harney claimed the project, originally due to open in 2011, had the potential to Hospital savings: Mary Harney yesterday index.html2.html3.html4.html5.html6.html7.html8.html9.html10.html11.html12.html13.html14.html15.html16.html17.html18.html19.html20.html21.html22.html23.html