{"id":568915,"date":"2026-07-26T12:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T12:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/568915\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T12:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T12:34:08","slug":"one-winner-of-lotto-jackpot-worth-over-e8-2-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/568915\/","title":{"rendered":"One winner of Lotto jackpot worth over \u20ac8.2 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was one winner of last night&#8217;s Lotto jackpot worth over \u20ac8.2 million.<\/p>\n<p>The winning numbers were 23, 24, 25, 42, 43, 46 and the bonus was 37.<\/p>\n<p>It is the fourth jackpot winner of 2026, with the lucky winner taking home a total of \u20ac8,221,849.<\/p>\n<p>Organisers have said the location of where the winning ticket was sold will be revealed in the coming days.<\/p>\n<p>They have encouraged players who bought a ticket for last night\u2019s draw to check them, as in addition to the jackpot win, 3 other players took hoe just shy of \u20ac90,000 each.<\/p>\n<p>The win comes after the National Lottery last week announced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/news\/business\/2026\/0716\/1583660-national-lotterey\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">changes due to come into effect later this year, which will see two numbers dropped<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It will be the game\u2019s first update in eight years.<\/p>\n<p>The National Lottery said the number of balls will be reduced from 47 to 45 in each Lotto draw.<\/p>\n<p>This means that the odds of winning the jackpot or top prize will improve from 1 in 10.7 million to 1 in 8.1 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There was one winner of last night&#8217;s Lotto jackpot worth over \u20ac8.2 million. The winning numbers were 23,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":568916,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60],"class_list":["post-568915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568915","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=568915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/568916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}