A lucky National Lottery player hails from Galway has found themselves the star of their own rags-to-riches story, becoming the most recent addition to Ireland’s exclusive club of millionaires. The fortuitous Galwegian won a staggering €1 million prize, which placed them as the 20th person to win a National Lottery millionaire title in the year 2023. Enthusiasm is mounting as the National Lottery is on the verge of unveiling the name of the retailer responsible for selling the winning ticket within the coming days.
The participant, whose identity remains a secret, picked the winning combination in the Wednesday night Lotto Plus 1 draw. The numbers that transformed their life were: 3, 24, 28, 29, 30, 45, along with a bonus number of 47.
The history-making win follows a pattern of good fortune in the area, marking the fourth Galway resident in three weeks to walk away with a sizable National Lottery purse. June has indeed been a lucky month for the region, with significant wins playing out in rapid succession. A Ballinasloe local clinched the EuroMillions Plus Top Prize of €500,000 on June 23, later followed by another Ballinasloe player duplicating that exact fortune one week later, on June 30. Adding to the Galway glory was a Ballybrit resident who also seized the EuroMillions Plus top prize of half a million euros in the Tuesday night’s draw preceding the million-euro windfall.
Alongside the exciting news of the million-euro jackpot, the latest Lotto draw has been generous to more than 58,000 participants, with prizes won across the various Lotto and Lotto Plus games. Not to be overshadowed, a Dublin player experienced their own lucky break, matching five numbers and the bonus in the main Lotto draw, thus banking a tidy sum of €35,122. This winning Normal Play ticket saw its origin in a Tesco store located in Lucan.
The winning digits in the main Lotto draw that evening were as follows: 7, 10, 22, 32, 37, 40, and the added bonus was 17.
Dublin too had its moment in the spotlight thanks to the National Lottery revealing that a Spar store on Millenium Walkway, on Abbey Street, served as the purveyor of fortune by selling a Money Multiplier Scratch Card worth a cool €100,000. The store owner, John O’Neill, expressed unbridled joy for the customer’s turn of good luck. “I’m just absolutely delighted for that customer,” O’Neill said, hoping the prize brings the anonymous winner plenty of joy and ample opportunity to savor their newfound wealth. Pride swelled as he declared it the biggest Scratch Card prize their store had ever dispatched, with aspirations of this becoming a trend for the sake of ongoing excitement.
The recipient of this remarkable €100,000 windfall, residing in Co. Dublin, has already claimed their bounty. In a confession of utter astonishment, the winner conveyed having encountered a ‘quite the surprise’ upon scratching the fortuitous card purchased at the aforementioned Spar shop. For someone whose previous highest win capped at €50, the multitude of zeroes that suddenly faced them was indeed cause for shock. With a humble disbelief, the victor expressed their elation at joining the ranks of top prize winners, a sentiment that likely resonated with the freshly minted millionaire in Galway. For both beneficiaries, the priority now shifts to caring for their families and nurturing plans that their extraordinary wins have now made possible.
