JACKPOT: Lucky lotto player scoops €1 million prize

A Lotto player in North County Dublin was delighted to drop into Lotto HQ this week and leave the building with a cheque worth €1,000,500. The Lotto winner scooped their life-changing prize in the special Lotto Plus Raffle event held on Saturday 23rd December after purchasing their winning ticket at the Applegreen Roundtower service station in Lusk, Co. Dublin. 

The winner admitted that even though they checked their ticket on Christmas Day, they had no idea just how much their ticket was worth until just last week. 

“I saw the message to contact the National Lottery when I checked the ticket at Christmas and saw that I had the Raffle number. I made the assumption that I had won €500 which I was thrilled with because I said to myself, that’ll be great for paying off a few bills in January. I decided to go and actually claim the prize last week but when I did, it wouldn’t go through the terminal so I rang into Claims to see if there was an issue. They took the details and said they would call me back. After a few minutes, I got the call and the person on the phone asked me if I was sitting down and said that I had won €1 million. I was in the shop at the time trying to pick up a few bits so I didn’t know what to say or how to react.”

The Lotto Plus Raffle winner even saw the celebratory store photo recently in the newspaper but never thought they could be the big winner that the National Lottery were urging to come forward. 

“It’s funny because I saw the photo with the champagne at the store and I never even put two and two together that the winner could have been me. You never think you’ll win a prize like that so it just went over my head. It really is like a layer upon layer of luck with this one though which is the mad thing. I know that the day I won was a special Raffle event and the only reason there was €1 million even in that draw was because a Monaghan player never claimed their prize. It took that winner not coming forward to me having the winning Raffle number and then to have my exact Raffle ticket picked out again for the extra prize.”