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THE NATIONAL LOTTERY has revealed the 26 locations where ticket buyers won match five price of €29,345 each.
It comes as the jackpot of just over €19 million has rolled over, again.
Last night was draw number 50 since it was last won, and it’ll roll over to Saturday’s game which will be the 51st.
Fine Gael TD Bernard Durkan hit out at the operator recently, and called for two balls to be dropped from the draw.
However the National Lottery has been keen to point out that, while the jackpot’s capped at €19 million, the other prizes on offer will be boosted.
There was also no winner in last night’s match 5 plus bonus, but 26 people won €29,345 each in the next group down.
The winners in those locations who bought physical are being advised to sign the back and keep it safe.
They should also make a claim to the National Lottery itself and arrangements will be made for payment.
Three of the 26 players detailed in the infographic bought their tickets online.
Good Causes
Nearly 30 cent from every euro spent on a National Lottery ticket goes into the Good Causes Fund, which supports community projects in the areas of sports, arts, Irish language, youth affairs, health and culture.
Over €6 billion has been raised for the fund since the National Lottery was established in 1987.
€425 million will be spent on Good Cause projects in 2021, part-funded by approximately €250 million raised by the National Lottery according to figures from Minister Michael McGrath.
His Department of Public Expenditure is due to publish a review on the Good Causes Fund some time in the second quarter of 2022.
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Most badly managed lottery – not won since June 6th, rollover capped so low, when it’s won jackpot starts at €2 million…it’s finished
@Jack Russell: How is it badly managed? Its a game of chance. Numbers haven’t clicked, simple as. In spite of the lack of jackpot winner there has been increased lower prizes. That in my mind ensures more people get more money.
@Ger Murphy: increased lower prizes ?? Have a day off, the increase is pathetic in comparison to the what the jackpot is supposed to be increased by every draw if it’s not won. This is plucking criminal, where is this money going ??
@Malachi Shanks: check your facts before you spout. Then we can have a rational discussion.
Jackpot not won. Plus 1 not won. Plus 2 not won. 5+ bonus ball not won in all three draws. There must be a lot of Canadian teachers due to retire shortly.
ODDS are stacked High against YOU winning the Jackpot Folks ,Time to try 2/3 numbers in bookies 60/1 + 100/1.
@Larry Rawson: your odds are completely wrong 40/1 and 330/1
@cillian: You’re both wrong. 60/1 for 2 numbers and 700/1 for 3. 45/1 and 400/1 if you include the bonus.
The highest prize won out of all the draws was €29,000 hah
@Gary: yeh and that’s hard to get, odds are still low.
50 no wins is very very unlikely, given the odds. I’m sure there’s nothing untoward though
@Gary: that was just the highest prize won in the last draw. There’s been winners between 500k t 850k regularly enough the last two months. Lotto still making a mint though
@slfc21: There is meant to be €2 million rollover ever week. It’s capped at €19 million. They said if the jackpot wasn’t won they would give higher winnings to the next top winner. They didn’t! The only one getting rich is the Canadian investment group.
@john smith iv: There were some interesting figures out during the week that said the odds of the Irish lotto rolling over 50 times are about 1,500:1. It’s unusual but by no means extraordinary.
Chances of an individual draw rolling over are about 85%.
Meanwhile the odds of a single line matching all 6 numbers are 10.7million to one. Statistically speaking, playing the lotto is an absurd thing to do. Don’t waste your money to begin with – if you’re not in, you can’t lose…
@Gary: my comment was just replying to your comment where you said that 29k was the most won out of all the draws. It wasn’t . You didn’t say any of that the first time.
@Kevin Collins: 2 euro at 10.7 million to one doesn’t seem terrible to try to win 19m when you factor in there are also smaller prizes
@Mickety Dee: 4 euro minimum
@Eoin Sweeney: Still, that’s for two lines.
Boycott
Boycott it.
FG Td crying over spilt milk when his party sold it in the first place!
@Niall Power: Was howler-labour who actually was behind it but of course cheered on by FG
We’re funding the Canadian teachers pension fund. Oh and good causes
Shambles, the ad constantly saying it’s a jackpot but never mention nobodies won it in ages. Needs investigating.
Why has it been capped?? Is there a reason why, legally??,are they allowed to cap it??..Anyone got an answer..Would like to know.
@Cian Omahony Snr: Yes, because if it goes above 19m in theory someone or some group could buy all the combinations for less than the jackpot amount and make a profit.
Withdraw their licence.
Is anyone playing it even
Why bother capping it at 19, Euro millions is capped at 180 so an Irish person could win that
@Peter Tutty: The Euromillions is currently capped at 230m and when the cap is reached and in turn won, the cap increases 10m each time that arises, Unlike the lotto
51st rollover so a TD asks for for TWO numbers to be withdrawn.That should fix the issue. The majority doing the Lotto since day on have most likely stuck to birthdays so adding on over the years has only helped the Lotto!
The Lotto concept encourages the idea that winning big money grants a status higher that of his or her fellow humans, a flasher faster car, a bigger house, more exotic holidays etc. it promotes the idea that wealth equates with happiness.
On the hundredth anniversary of our independence, we can do better as a people than fumble with bad taste scratch cards and coloured balls to get our kicks. The concept the Lotto espouses is damaging to our dignity as individuals and the self-respect of our society. The pandemic has demonstrated what is important in a society and what is not, it is time to end the Lotto.
@Fergus Quinlan: I’d love to win tho lotto jackpot or more so, the euromillions. I would be extremely happy. I’d even stretch to buying you a pint to cheer your miserable self up!
It’s a tax on the mathematically challenged.
Should avoid buying tickets, until the odds of winning are fairer
Just spend your money doing the lottery with your local club.
Greater chance of a bird slipping on a banana skin, breaking its leg and getting covid
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