iGaming Business – A consortium of UK National Lottery operator Camelot and An Post, the state-owned provider of postal services in Ireland, has been named as the preferred bidder for the licence to run the Irish National Lottery under a new 20-year contract reported to be worth €405 million ($542.7 million). According to The Irish Times newspaper, the bid was submitted through the Premier Lotteries Ireland Consortium comprising An Post, its pension funds and Camelot’s parent company, the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan. One of the significant features of the new agreement is that the licensee will have greater flexibility to…