Wicklow Daily Million Winner Plays 1 Draw for €1 and Wins €1 Million!

The sun continues to shine in Lottery HQ as winners collect life-enhancing prizes over the past few days.

A Wicklow man claimed the largest cheque of the day as he collected a prize of €1,000,000 after striking it big on the Daily Million 2pm draw from 14th April. The online player filled us in on how the events unfolded.

“I won’t lie, it’s been a while since I’ve played any lottery game. I got an email from the Lottery team to say there was a balance remaining on my online account, so I decided to put it towards the upcoming Daily Million draw – obviously not thinking much of it.”

On receiving his winning notification after the 2pm draw, he initially skimmed by the email, not reading it properly until later that evening.

“I rang my partner immediately, I didn’t know what to do! She laughed at me down the phone, telling me I was having her on. I had to log back into the account to see if it was still there – we really couldn’t believe it... and to be honest, I’m still struggling to believe this is all real!”

The Daily Million players’ one line, worth €1, has now changed his life with a €1 Million win. He hopes to clear his mortgage and treat his family to a trip in the sun in the coming months.

Meanwhile, a family syndicate of four from North Dublin retrieved their winning EuroMillions Plus ticket from a safe space in their attic to collect a cheque worth €500,000. They had purchased the ticket for the 16th April EuroMillions draw at Tesco in Artane Castle Shopping Centre on Kilmore Road, Dublin 5.

In the height of excitement, one member of the syndicate recalled the commotion upon discovering the win. “We are frequent players, but this is absolutely the most amount of money we’ve ever won! When I heard the win was local, I had to check the ticket – lo and behold, there were our numbers, although I thought we had won €50,000, not €500,000!”

Their daughter chimed in “When he rang me to share the news all I could say was ‘Are you winding me up?’, I thought he was calling to deliver bad news.”

The syndicate were delighted to have a win come their way, and between them they’re holding out to celebrate properly on a family holiday in the sunshine.

A Meath man claimed the EuroMillions Match 5 prize of €127,814 from 15th April. His winning Quick Pick ticket was purchased from Mace, Drummond Magheracloone, Carrickmacross, Co. Monaghan.

Speaking on the win, he laughed “This is a funny one because I’ve been playing my own numbers in the EuroMillions for years, and this is the only time I've bought a Quick Pick – and now look!”

**“I was away golfing for the weekend, and my ticket was sitting in the car at home. The family had told me they heard the win was in Monaghan, but I had no way of checking it until I got back days later. It was the first thing I did when arriving home, and sure enough, no one believed me when I told them the news – I’ll admit that I've joked about winning one too many times!” **

The Meath man has officially decided that he’s now going to start alternating playing his own numbers as well as Quick Pick. Although his initial response to what he’s now going to do with the prize was “I haven’t a clue”, he quickly came around to deciding on a family holiday.

Tomorrow night’s (29th April) EuroMillions Jackpot soars to an estimated €85 Million! Players dreaming of becoming Ireland’s newest EuroMillions Jackpot winner are reminded that tickets for tomorrow night's draw can be purchased in-store, through the National Lottery app or at http://www.lottery.ie ahead of the 7.30pm cut off.

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