The National Lottery is urging EuroMillions players in Athlone to check their tickets after Tuesday night’s EuroMillions draw produced a winner of the EuroMillions Plus top prize worth a massive €500,000.
The winning ticket, which is now worth a half million euro, was sold on the day of the draw (November 22 ) at Tuthill’s newsagents in the Golden Island Shopping Centre, Athlone, Co. Westmeath.
Manager of the store, Joe Callinan, was delighted to get the call that his store sold the winning ticket.
“This is our first big win, so we’re absolutely over the moon. We’re a small little store located in the busy Golden Island Shopping Centre, so we’re kept going! Locals have told me that the previous store that was here before sold a big win on a National Lottery ticket a couple of years back, so we must be in a good spot!”, he said.
“I’m sure we’ll be swamped with customers and enquiries over the next couple of days, so we’re very much looking forward to that. We want to wish the winners all the best, and I’m sure they’ll be having a very good Christmas with their windfall of cash,” he added.
The €500,000 win in Athlone is the 24th EuroMillions Plus top prize win in Ireland in 2022. The winning numbers in Tuesday’s EuroMillions Plus draw were: 2, 7, 12, 36, 45.
