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<\/p>\nPicked up a ticket from a filling station on the Monahan Road<\/p>\n
13:09, 10 Apr 2026Updated 13:12, 10 Apr 2026<\/p>\n
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Tim O’Donoghue, Store Owner, (centre) celebrates with staff May Cremin and Christian Murphy Cronin and Niamh O’Donovan (Sales Rep National Lottery) and Emma Monaghan (Comms Executive National Lottery)(Image: Dylan Vaughan Photography)<\/p>\n
A Cork man received incredible news on Easter Saturday after winning \u20ac1 million – and had the longest bank holiday weekend of his life waiting for Lotto HQ to open again on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
The lucky player nabbed a whopping \u20ac1,005,000 after buying an Ireland Only Raffle ticket<\/a> at the Marina XL Filling Station, by the roundabout at Victoria Road and Monahan Road. The manager of the station said the team was “absolutely thrilled”<\/a> for the winner – whose wife didn’t quite believe the news when he told her.<\/p>\n The lucky winner said: \u201cOn Saturday when the news broke about the win, I was 99.9% sure that I had the winning ticket, but I wanted to confirm it with the Claims team to be fully certain. Tuesday felt like a lifetime away, but I was delighted to finally speak to them and confirm I had won. I told my wife and she couldn\u2019t believe it. I have played a few tricks on her in the past so it\u2019s understandable!\u201d<\/p>\n And while the sum might be life-changing, the winner added that he intends to continue living his life as normal – taking some time to adjust to the gigantic windfall.<\/p>\n He said that caring for his family is his priority, but that they might well treat themselves to a special holiday: \u201cLooking after family is most important but apart from that, I am going to continue with life as normal and take some time to think and plan. We already have a holiday planned but this may be the perfect excuse to upgrade ourselves.\u201d<\/p>\n At the weekend Tim O\u2019Donoghue, owner of Marina XL Filling Station, said he was delighted to receive a call from the National Lottery team informing him that his shop had sold a big winner.<\/p>\n Tim said, “We\u2019ve been proudly serving the Marina area for 23 years, and this is by far our biggest win to date. We\u2019re a busy store with customers coming and going all day, so there\u2019s huge excitement among the team knowing that one of those shoppers is now a millionaire.<\/p>\n “We\u2019re absolutely delighted to have sold the winning ticket and want to wish the winner all the best in the future.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Picked up a ticket from a filling station on the Monahan Road 13:09, 10 Apr 2026Updated 13:12, 10…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":391766,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[14641,42,9077,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-391765","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-cork-city","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-national-lottery","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-top-news","13":"tag-top-stories","14":"tag-topnews","15":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391765","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=391765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}