A Dublin punter has scooped more than \u20ac8.7m after winning Saturday’s Lotto jackpot.<\/p>\n
The winning numbers were 1, 7, 27, 28, 34, 42, and the bonus was 26.<\/p>\n
The winning player won the top prize of \u20ac8,726,418 after matching all six numbers plus the bonus.<\/p>\n
They took the title of second Lotto jackpot winner of the year to date.<\/p>\n
The National Lottery has confirmed that the winning retail location will be announced on Wednesday 6th May.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, a player in Westmeath also had a Saturday night to remember after matching five numbers and the bonus to win an incredible \u20ac146,878.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Midlands player purchased their winning quick pick ticket on Thursday 30th April at The Grove Service Station in Baylough, Athlone, Co. Westmeath.<\/p>\n
A spokesperson for the National Lottery said: \u201cWhat a weekend it\u2019s been for National Lottery players all over the country! A Lotto player in Dublin has officially become Ireland\u2019s newest millionaire after winning Saturday night\u2019s Lotto jackpot worth an impressive \u20ac8,726,418.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“We are encouraging all of our players in the Capital to carefully check their tickets today as one player now holds the title of second Lotto jackpot winner of 2026.\u201d <\/p>\n
There was no jackpot winner in the Lotto Plus 1 and Lotto Plus 2 draws.\u00a0<\/p>\n
According to Lotto bosses, more than 101,000 players won prizes in the Lotto and Lotto Plus draws.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Dublin punter has scooped more than \u20ac8.7m after winning Saturday’s Lotto jackpot. The winning numbers were 1,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":429892,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,1111,61,60,43,1112],"class_list":["post-429891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-court-and-crime","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-politics-and-analysis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429891","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=429891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}