South Kilkenny store sells Lotto ticket worth over €8.5 million!

Coastal town in Waterford revealed as winning location for Saturday night’s €1 million Lotto Plus 1 win

Ireland’s newest Lotto millionaires urged to contact National Lottery!

The National Lottery has revealed that Saturday night’s winning Lotto jackpot ticket worth €8,508,720 was sold in a South Kilkenny town. Further details of the selling location of the jackpot ticket will be released in the coming days.

Meanwhile, the winning Lotto Plus 1 ticket worth €1 million was sold in the scenic, seaside town of Dungarvan. The National Lottery has announced that the winning Quick Pick ticket was purchased on Friday 6th May with the winning store location due to be confirmed tomorrow, Tuesday 10th May.

The Waterford winner has become the sixth Lotto Plus 1 top prize winner of 2022 following wins in Dublin (2), Wexford, Cork and Louth.

The National Lottery have continued to appeal to players in Kilkenny and Waterford to check their tickets carefully from Saturday night’s draw as two players now have tickets worth the staggering amounts of €8,508,720 and €1 million. The two overnight millionaires are advised to sign the back of their tickets and make contact with the National Lottery prize claims team on 1800 666 222 or email claims@lottery.ie and arrangements will be made for them to claim their prizes.

The two biggest wins from Saturday night’s Lotto draw have now brought the number of National Lottery millionaires for the year to date to a grand total of 18.

See the table below for a list of wins worth €1 million and above for 2022 so far:

No.

Date (2022)

Game

Amount

County

1.

5th January

Daily Million

€1 million

Kildare

2.

15th January

Lotto

€19,060,800

Mayo

3.

21st January

EuroMillions – Raffle

€1 million

Cork

4.

21st January

EuroMillions – Raffle

€1 million

Cork

5.

21st January

EuroMillions – Raffle

€1 million

Galway

6.

26th January

Lotto Plus 1

€1 million

Dublin (Online)

7.

5th February

Lotto Plus 1

€1 million

Wexford

8.

9th February

Lotto

€4,687,612

Meath

9.

11th February

EuroMillions

€30,928,078

Tipperary

10.

17th February

Daily Million

€1 million

Dublin

11.

23rd February

Lotto Plus 1

€1 million

Cork

12.

1st March

Daily Million

€1 million

Mayo

13.

12th March

Lotto

€5,365,262

Dublin

14.

19th March

Lotto Plus 1

€1 million

Dublin

15.

9th April

Lotto Plus 1

€1 million

Louth

16.

28th April

Daily Million

€1 million

Cork

17.

7th May

Lotto Plus 1

€1 million

Waterford

18.

7th May

Lotto

€8,508,720

Kilkenny

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