Work syndicate from Laois collect €250,000 Lotto Plus 2 top prize

An online player in Laois has become the 32nd National Lottery Millionaire of 2023 after scooping the €2,294,855 in Wednesday night’s draw. 

The Laois player became the 12th Lotto Jackpot winner of the year after purchasing their ticket through the National Lottery app or online at www.lottery.ie. The National Lottery has confirmed that a notification to the user’s online account and a separate email has now been sent to the lucky  Laois ticketholder.   

The winning numbers from the Wednesday 11th October draw were: 02, 12, 16, 24, 39, 40 and the bonus was 25. 

Meanwhile, the National Lottery is eager to hear from another player in Laois who won a €45,075 Snowball prize in the Telly Bingo draw on Friday 14th July. The claim deadline for this prize is close of business today, Thursday 12th October. 

The winning ticket was purchased on Tuesday 4th July at Dunnes Stores in the Kyle Shopping Centre on James Fintan Lalor Avenue in Portlaoise.  

A National Lottery spokesperson said: “It was a life-changing Wednesday night for an online Lotto player in Laois who won over €2.29 Million in the midweek draw. The Laois player has now been crowned as the 12th Lotto Jackpot winner for the year to date following Jackpot wins by players in Limerick, Dublin, Meath, Donegal, Westmeath, Louth and Leitrim.” 

“And that’s not the only Laois player who we are calling on today! There is a Telly Bingo player who is yet to come forward to claim their €45,075 Snowball prize from the Friday 14th July draw. As close of business today is the deadline to claim, we are eager to hear from this player as soon as possible. The winning ticket was purchased on Tuesday 4th July at Dunnes Stores in the Kyle Shopping Centre on James Fintan Lalor Avenue in Portlaoise. If this sounds familiar to any of our Laois players, get checking those old tickets as soon as possible and make contact with our prize claims team on 1800 666 222 or email claims@lottery.ie and arrangements will be made for you to collect your prize.” 

It was a day to remember for a lucky work syndicate from Co. Laois who travelled to Dublin to collect their Lotto Plus 2 top prize of €250,000 which they won on Saturday 5th August. The syndicate waited well over a month to initially make contact with the National Lottery to make arrangements to take their prize and their syndicate leader told how his unusual Lotto routine delayed his colleagues prize claim for weeks on end! 

“It’s been an incredibly exciting couple of weeks. Some people might say that I have a strange routine with my lottery tickets. I buy my weekly ticket and I always wait a couple of weeks until I check them. It allows me to daydream for a little longer with the hope that I could potentially have a winning lottery ticket worth a couple of million euro in my wallet. On this occasion, shortly after the draw, somebody told me that the Lotto Plus 2 top prize was sold exactly where I bought the ticket for the syndicate. My ears cocked up immediately and I thought, oh hello, the chances of me having this winning ticket could actually be a reality. Any normal person would have checked their ticket straight away but I still managed to hold out for nearly two weeks before I actually checked the ticket. It was only when I read that the winner of the prize still hadn’t come forward to claim it that I knew I just had to check it. All that anticipation and build up was all the sweeter when I checked it to see we had won the €250,000 prize,” said the syndicate leader. 

Nearly 30 cent in every €1 spent on all National Lottery games goes back to Good Causes in the areas of sport, youth, health, welfare, education, arts, heritage, and the Irish Language. In total more than €6 Billion has been raised for Good Causes since the National Lottery was established 36 years ago. In 2022 alone, €259 Million was raised for local Good Causes in communities across Ireland.            

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