{"id":347911,"date":"2026-03-15T19:15:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T19:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/347911\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T19:15:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T19:15:10","slug":"new-cork-millionaire-after-lucky-punter-scoops-over-e1m-in-lotto-plus-raffle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/347911\/","title":{"rendered":"New Cork millionaire after lucky punter scoops over \u20ac1m in Lotto Plus raffle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Cork has an extra lottery millionaire this week after a lucky punter won \u20ac1,000,500 in Saturday\u2019s Lotto Plus raffle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The National Lottery was unable to offer a more specific address in the largest county, but one Corkonian enjoyed a good Saturday night after purchasing their winning ticket online.\u202f\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The winning number was 1725, and the new millionaire is the fourth person to win more than \u20ac1m on the Lotto so far this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Two players in Kildare and Galway matched five numbers and the bonus in the main draw to win \u20ac42,191 each.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Saturday night&#8217;s winning numbers were: 03, 05, 31, 37, 42, 46 and the bonus was 17.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The biggest winners from Saturday night\u2019s draw are advised to contact the National Lottery prize claims team on 1800 666222 or email claims@lottery.ie and arrangements will be made for them to collect their prizes in Lottery Headquarters. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Nearly 30c in every \u20ac1 spent on the National Lottery goes back to good causes in the areas of sport, youth, health, welfare, education, arts,\u202fheritage\u202fand the Irish language.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">In total, more than \u20ac6.5bn has been raised for good causes since the National Lottery was\u202festablished\u202f37 years ago. In 2024 alone, \u20ac239.3m was raised for local good causes in communities across Ireland.\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The National Lottery advises participants to gamble responsibly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cork has an extra lottery millionaire this week after a lucky punter won \u20ac1,000,500 in Saturday\u2019s Lotto Plus&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":347912,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,4257,79,61,60,15423,9077],"class_list":["post-347911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-cork-business","tag-cork-news","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-lotto","tag-national-lottery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347911","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=347911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}