The oldest town in Mayo is home to the newest millionaire in Ireland after the winning ticket worth €2,824,437 was sold in a shop in Ballinrobe in Wednesday night’s Lotto jackpot.
The National Lottery is appealing to Lotto players in Mayo, particularly in the town of Ballinrobe, to check their tickets carefully.
This is the 59th Lotto jackpot to be won in Mayo since the inception of the Lotto game in 1988. These 59 jackpots total a gargantuan €106,548,931.
This latest Lotto win is the seventh jackpot win so far in 2020 with over €34 million won in jackpot prizes alone. In 2020, almost €73 million has been won in prizes in the Lotto game which includes 12 new millionaires which have been created in the Lotto and Lotto Plus games.
A National Lottery spokesperson said it hopes to reveal the name and the location of the winning store which sold the €2.8 million Lotto jackpot by the end of the week and said: “With a jackpot win of this amount, it is important that we take some time to inform the winning retailer and of course to give the winning ticketholder the time and space they need to let this amazing win sink in, so we will be announcing the winning store in the coming days.
"Wednesday night’s draw produced more than 70,000 winners across the country so we are encouraging everybody who bought a Lotto ticket to check them very carefully – particularly those who played in Mayo.
"If you are one of the lucky winners of any of the night’s big prizes, please sign the back of the ticket and contact our prize claims team on 1800 666 222 or email [email protected] and we will make arrangements for you to collect your prize.”
The winning numbers for Wednesday night’s Lotto draw were: 03, 08, 21, 34, 37, 47 and the bonus number was 16.
