A Donegal man is planning his dream holiday after picking up a cheque worth \u20ac500,000 at National Lottery HQ!<\/p>\n
He scooped the top prize in the EuroMillions Plus draw on 10th March after purchasing his ticket at Harkins Gala on the Donegal Road in Ballybofey.<\/p>\n
The man is remaining anonymous, but revealed he\u2019s managed to stay calm and collected ever since finding out about the win.<\/p>\n
He said: \u201cMy wife was the first person to find out, and I think my reaction took her by surprise. I am definitely feeling the excitement more sitting here, there\u2019s no denying that this is real now!\u201d<\/p>\n
While he hasn\u2019t marked the win with a celebration just yet, plans are already forming. \u201cA holiday of a lifetime is the one thing that we keep going back to, so I think that\u2019ll be the first thing we do. Making memories is key! After that, there\u2019s a list of home renovations that we plan to do.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Ballybofey Lotto winner keeps his cool after collecting \u20ac500K! was last modified: March 25th, 2026 by Rachel McLaughlin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Donegal man is planning his dream holiday after picking up a cheque worth \u20ac500,000 at National Lottery…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76487,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-365118","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365118","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=365118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}