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THE WINNER OF the €4.4 million Lotto jackpot sold in Donegal in early January has finally collected their cheque.
The National Lottery had made numerous appeals for the winner to come forward over the course of January, however, they only made contacted on 30 January.
The winner of the €4,434,994 jackpot on 13 January revealed that they kept the winning Quick Pick ticket in the glove department of their car for the past four and a half weeks before claiming it.
“I keep all my Lotto tickets in the glove box. Once I found out I won, I stored the ticket in the glove box of the car during the day while I was at work. But I took the ticket into the house at night time. That piece of paper has clocked up for mileage over the past month,” the winner said.
The winner, who wishes to remain anonymous, said that the new-found fortune “would not change me one single bit”.
“It’s business as usual for me as I have no plans to take time off work to celebrate. I took today off to collect the cheque in Dublin and I’m back in work first thing in the morning,” they said.
The winning Quick Pick ticket was sold at Daly’s Topaz on the Letterkenny Road in Lifford.
The winning numbers for the Lotto draw that night were: 1, 2, 7, 33, 34, 40 and bonus number was 6.
Explaining how they realised they had won the jackpot, the Donegal native said: “I was driving past Daly’s Topaz on the Sunday after the draw and, while I had heard on the radio that the Lotto was won, I hadn’t gathered that it was won in Donegal.
I saw on their huge digital sign at the filling station that they had sold the winner and I just thought straight away that it was me. When I checked the numbers I was bowled over.
The winner said they have only informed family members about their win. They also said that they will make a number of donations to charities close to the person’s heart.
Meanwhile, there was also good news for a Mayo woman who scratched off a €30,000 win with a €3 All Cash Tripler scratch card.
The woman purchased her winning ticket at the Barcastle Service Station in Castlebar, Mayo.
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“We won the lotto” programme wouldn’t give you much confidence in the lotto. Why can’t tickets cost 2e max? Why does it cost loads to play the lotto and “plus” extra games? It’s either ever increasing rent to pay or risk 10 million to 1 odds of winning like this lucky extremely rare win thanks to greedy lotto owners increasing odds of winning by millions to 1 more & increasing line prices in the process so they can reach their 1 billion turnover desire & ever smaller amounts for prizes & good causes.
@Free speech has to return here: I agree. i stopped doing it when they increased the price and added more numbers pushing the odds out top eleven million to one.
What a complete waste of a lotto win …I’m fuming …what’s the point doing lotto if it’s not going to make a difference
@Henry Matthews: I’m pretty sure the charities getting a donation will see the point. Money shouldn’t change someone.
@Henry Matthews: theres always someone in Ireland with the poor mouth.
@Joe Conlon: not a poor mouth at all….I’d rather see a family or work syndicate winning this….not someone who sticks it in the bank to rot away ….
@Eoghan Joyce: i don’t think yet man who won is planning any big donations by the look of it..
@Henry Matthews:
Read the article.
@Henry Matthews: Possibly be a farmer. I’ve got a brand new combine harvester.
@P.J. Nolan: ah …you’re right…I was fuming so much that I only read half the article …thanks for that…
@Henry Matthews: begrudgery alive and well with this one
@Paddy: not begrudgery at all……
@Henry Matthews:
I guess he loves his job, good luck to him but to be honest anyone who thinks winning €4.4million isn’t going to change their lives is dreaming, weather he wants it to or not.
@P.J. Nolan: he or she are probably artfully downplaying it and have every intention to go mad
Jesus imagine if the car had been stolen!!
It’s a teacher on midterm break
@PeteMcC: so you didn’t read the article then.
@dstaffx:
It happens a lot….
Back to work in the morning? I would in my hole. Where would I get a job like that? one that even a lottery win would make you want to go back.
@Maggie O’Connor: Bear in mind, a lot of the little people work in jobs where you have to give notice before you can quit, lotto or no lotto!
@Neal Ireland Hello.: i do 12 hour shifts on minimum wage I’m supposed to give notice when I leave… but if I had €4 million in the bank I think they could fu(king whistle for my notice.. one very happy phone call in, and I’m off.
A fair few people are going to be popular when they return to work tomorrow!
People like that shouldn’t be let play or win, at least go on a holiday
Now begin the endless wait for the cheque to clear. I imagine that would be the worst part of winning the Lotto.
Arsehole
@Niall Cassidy:
See Paddy’s comment.
He could already be a millionaire and working in his own business and it would have less impact on him /her
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