The top prize of €20,000 every month for 30 years was won by an online player in Wicklow, while the Tier 2 prize of €2,000 a month for five years was physically bought at the SuperValu store in Castle Street Shopping Centre.

Officials from the National Lottery visited the store with a load of bubbly, which rained down on the staff, even giving the dozens of colourful balloons a good soaking. But what everyone was really excited to know was, where were the winners?

Emma Monaghan, from the National Lottery press office, put a bit of a dampener on that one because they weren’t actually there.

“I can tell you that both of the winners have made contact with our prize-counting team,” Emma said, “so arrangements are underway at the moment. We’re looking forward to meeting them in Lottery HQ, in our winner’s room.”

Asked whether winners have to share their good news – if not their good fortune – Emma said: “It’s every player’s choice whether they’d like to share their news with the public, with their family and friends, or if they wish to remain private. But whatever their choice is, we help them with that.”

The double whammy is also a big win for the National Lottery, because it’s actually the first time an Irish winner has scooped the EuroDreams, which is a Europe-wide draw.

“So this is our very first Tier 1 winner, who has won the €20,000 for the 30 years. So it’s pretty historic, considering we had two Irish winners on the one draw on the one night.”

It’s an eye-watering amount of money for someone to win. Some gathered were reduced to tears. Thank the lucky stars there was a rain of champagne to mask them.

“We’ve had an amazing summer of top prizes,” Emma continued. “Winners just across the country. But to get our first top prize winner in the EuroDreams [in Wicklow] this month, it’s fantastic.”

Asked whether it was equitable that one winner should collect such a large sum of money – like the Kerry family that scooped €250m this summer – rather than just giving less to more, Emma said that the EuroMillions team and the National Lottery team “are always reviewing the games to see how they can make them better for players”.

“It is just the nature of the game as well. And week to week, there are people claiming incredible, life-changing prizes across the Lotto, EuroMillions, now EuroDreams, scratch cards, Telebingo and online games.”

One store where punters could try their luck is actually the SuperValu in Bray, where manager Tanya McGarry said that, aside from the big Euro Dream win, two other customers had scooped over €1,000 in the last week buying Lotto tickets in the store.

“So that’s three lucky tickets we’ve sold now in the last week,” she said, but doesn’t know who the big winner is.

“The staff are buzzing – it’s none of us – but staff are buzzing,” she said.

But are they really? Are they not just buzzing from envy?

“No, we’re all really hoping that it’s someone local in the community,” said the Bray native, who has worked at the store for nine years. “Maybe it’s someone that we know. It’s a small little town, isn’t it? So hopefully it’s somebody that we know. It’s a good day for Wicklow. Wicklow is winning at the moment.”

The life-changing EuroDreams prize amounts to a total of €7.2m over the next three decades.

The lucky winner matched all six numbers plus the Dream number, in Monday night’s draw, marking the first-ever EuroDreams top prize win in Ireland since the game launched in 2023. The winning numbers were 1, 3, 5, 11, 20, 31 with a Dream number of 5.

Meanwhile, continuing with the ‘Wicklow is winning’ buzz, another Wicklow player won big after scooping the top prize of the €1m draw, on Tuesday, September 9.

The winning numbers in the Daily Million draw were: 02, 05, 09, 12, 16, 23 and the bonus was 26.

National Lottery spokesperson Sarah Orr had the following advice for Daily Million players: “What a week it’s been so far for our players in Wicklow! Tuesday night’s Daily Million draw saw a Wicklow player become an overnight millionaire after they scooped an incredible €1m.

“The winner now holds the title of 6th Daily Million top prize winner of 2025. We are encouraging all of our Daily Million players in Wicklow to check their tickets very carefully today as one player now has a ticket worth a life-changing €1 million. The winner is advised to sign the back of their ticket and keep it safe. They should make contact with our prize claims team on 1800 666 222 and arrangements will be made for them to visit Lotto HQ to collect their prize.”