{"id":114617,"date":"2025-10-31T18:47:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T18:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/114617\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T18:47:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T18:47:08","slug":"celebrations-as-cork-woman-cashes-in-on-lucky-e200k-scratch-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/114617\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrations as Cork woman cashes in on lucky \u20ac200k scratch card"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">It was a big week for one Cork woman as she is \u20ac200k richer following a lucky scratch card purchase.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The Cork woman bought the \u20ac10 All Cash Spectacular Scratch Card while she was doing a quick grocery shop in the Tesco store located in Mahon Point Shopping Centre and at first thought she had misread the sum when she scratched the card.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Sharing the moment she discovered the win; she told the National Lottery team &#8220;I completely forgot I had the Scratch Card until later that evening. I was upstairs when I scratched it and got the shock of my life. At first, I thought it was \u20ac20,000 &#8211; I couldn\u2019t read it properly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cI legged it downstairs to my husband to double-check. He was sceptical at first but then confirmed it was actually \u20ac200,000.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">She continued, &#8220;I like to buy a Scratch Card every now and then, and while I\u2019ve won a few euros before, this is by far the biggest and most exciting. There was great excitement in the house, we\u2019re all buzzing!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The Cork woman is now looking forward to celebrating with her family and is considering a cruise holiday in the near future.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">There has been a recent stroke of luck for Cork lottery players following the winning Euromillions Jackpot ticket that was purchased in Clifford\u2019s Centra on Shandon Street in June.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">This historic win marked a new milestone for the Irish National Lottery, setting the record for the largest prize ever won in the country.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/4842537_1_articleinline_e2_82_ac250_2c000_2c000_20Euromillions_20Cork_20win_2002_1_.jpg\" alt=\"Clifford\u2019s Centra celebrate selling Ireland\u2019s biggest ever EuroMillions jackpot. Pictured is Cian Murphy CEO National Lottery alongside store manager Simon Champ and the team of Clifford\u2019s Centra on Shandon Street in Cork City centre. Photo Mac Innes\" title=\"Clifford\u2019s Centra celebrate selling Ireland\u2019s biggest ever EuroMillions jackpot. Pictured is Cian Murphy CEO National Lottery alongside store manager Simon Champ and the team of Clifford\u2019s Centra on Shandon Street in Cork City centre. Photo Mac Innes\" class=\"card-img\"\/>Clifford\u2019s Centra celebrate selling Ireland\u2019s biggest ever EuroMillions jackpot. Pictured is Cian Murphy CEO National Lottery alongside store manager Simon Champ and the team of Clifford\u2019s Centra on Shandon Street in Cork City centre. Photo Mac Innes<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Could it be third time lucky for the Rebel County? As tonight\u2019s EuroMillions jackpot is now set to roll towards an estimated \u20ac75 million.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Players dreaming of becoming Ireland\u2019s newest millionaire are reminded that tickets can be purchased in-store, via the National Lottery app or online at www.lottery.ie ahead of the 7.30pm cut-off time for sales this evening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was a big week for one Cork woman as she is \u20ac200k richer following a lucky scratch&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":114618,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,79,61,60,9077],"class_list":{"0":"post-114617","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-cork-news","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-national-lottery"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}