{"id":168016,"date":"2025-11-30T18:54:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T18:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/168016\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T18:54:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T18:54:09","slug":"new-irish-millionaire-confirmed-as-lotto-players-urged-to-check-tickets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/168016\/","title":{"rendered":"New Irish millionaire confirmed as Lotto players urged to check tickets"},"content":{"rendered":"

After a \u20ac1m win in Cork already this month – can lightning strike twice?<\/p>\n

16:26, 30 Nov 2025Updated 18:04, 30 Nov 2025<\/p>\n

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The search is on to find Ireland’s newest millionaire after a lucky Lotto <\/a>player bagged a life-changing sum in Sunday’s Daily Million draw.<\/p>\n

The punter scooped the top prize of \u20ac1 million in the 2pm Daily Million draw on Sunday, November 30, with the winning numbers 2, 7, 9, 11, 27, 29 and the bonus numbers 21. The lucky winner now has 90 days to claim their prize from Lotto <\/a>chiefs, before they turn the winnings over to promote the National Lottery, which in turn will increase the funds raised for Good Causes.<\/p>\n

Lotto bosses are urging all Daily Million players to check their tickets carefully and if you’re holding the winning ticket, be sure to contact the National Lottery prize claims team on 1800 666 222 or email claims@lottery.ie to arrange the collection of your prize.<\/p>\n

The National Lottery is set to reveal the shop which sold the winning ticket in the coming days.<\/p>\n

This latest Lotto win comes as winners in Munster claimed some incredible prizes this week, including one lucky Cork man who snapped up a seven-figure windfall – and he didn’t even tell his wife.<\/a> He walked away from hte Lotto HQ in Dublin with the largest cheque of the week after winning \u20ac1m on the Lotto Plus 1 draw on Saturday, November 1. His ticket was purchased at Tesco, Market Green Shopping Centre, Midleton<\/a>, Co. Cork.<\/p>\n

He had heard a large prize was won locally – and he opened the National Lottery<\/a> app to double-check his numbers, he got a notification reading “You’ve won big.”<\/p>\n

He said: “I always buy my ticket the day before the draw, and on this particular day, I was doing the school run – nothing out of the ordinary! I didn\u2019t tell anyone, not even my wife, and went to work as normal, although my head was absolutely scrambled. I knew I had to contact the National Lottery before heading home, just to be sure!”<\/p>\n

After double-checking the prize was his, he decided to hold off on sharing the news for just a few more hours before spilling the beans at family<\/a> dinner that evening – after dropping one or two sly hints.<\/p>\n

Two siblings from Co Cork also made the trip to Lottery HQ to claim their Lotto Match 5 + Bonus prize of \u20ac292,572 from Saturday, November 22. Their winning ticket was purchased from Costcutter at 14\/15 Bridge Street in Cork city.<\/p>\n

“We just can’t believe it!” They laughed. “The two of us have been in a syndicate together for years, although I usually just give my brother the money and he does all the ticket buying and checking \u2013 he’s the manager.”<\/p>\n

After their sudden windfall, one sibling is looking forward to doing some home improvements, while the other has their sights set on a brand-new kitchen for hosting family and tea parties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After a \u20ac1m win in Cork already this month – can lightning strike twice? 16:26, 30 Nov 2025Updated…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168017,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60,9077],"class_list":["post-168016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-national-lottery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168016","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=168016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}