A Huge Amount Of Money Was Won In The Irish Lotto But There Was One Sickening Downside For The Winners

There was a massive win in last night’s Irish Lotto but the win came with a massive downside for anyone with the winning ticket.

The second highest prize – worth nearly €250,000 was claimed but the only thing was, it was claimed by six people.

Meaning, instead of the winner waking up with €234,530 extra in their bank account, they shared the prize with five others, winning €39,088.

Still, a nice present to get after Christmas but you’d be kind of raging that five others had the same numbers as you.

The six players fell one number short of scooping the jackpot of €2.7 million – but share €234,530 for matching five numbers and the bonus ball.

The National Lottery today appealed to all its players to check their tickets to see if they have won this nice post-Christmas prize.

The winning numbers from last night’s draw (Saturday 29th December) were: 7, 13, 18, 26, 27, 28 and bonus number was 9. There was no winner of the jackpot, which rolls to an estimates €3 million for Wednesday’s draw (2nd January).

The lucky six winners bought their tickets in Monaghan, Westmeath, Tipperary and Cork, while two winners bought their tickets online.

The stores that sold four of the winning tickets are:

• Londis, Dublin Road, Castleblaney. Co. Monaghan
• Centra, M6 Service Centre, Tullamore Road, Kilbeggan. Co. Westmeath
• Centra Carrig Road Service Station. Parkmore, Roscrea. Co. Tipperary.
• Lotabeg Stores, Lotabeg Estate, Mayfield, Cork.

A National Lottery spokesperson said: “It’s an incredible end to the year to have six players match five numbers and the bonus ball. If you are one of our winners you can contact the National Lottery Prize Claims team on 01 836 444 and we will make arrangements for you to collect your prize in the National Lottery Winner’s Room in the New Year”.

“We’d also like to remind our players all over the country that there is just one day left to get your ticket for our Millionaire Raffle draw which takes place at 10pm on New Year’s Eve which will see one person be made a millionaire, with a top prize of €1 million as well as 5,567 other cash prizes. Get your tickets now, which are €25 each, in-store or online at www.lottery.ie.”