{"id":607246,"date":"2026-08-28T12:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T12:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/607246\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T12:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T12:58:09","slug":"stop-for-ice-cream-in-portmagee-leads-to-e1-million-lotto-win-for-kerry-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/607246\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop for ice cream in Portmagee leads to \u20ac1 million Lotto win for Kerry player"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A spur-of-the-moment ticket purchase in Portmagee last month, has led to a \u20ac1 million <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiokerry.ie\/news\/portmagee-lotto-plus-one-winner-comes-forward-492249\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lotto Plus 1<\/a> top prize.<\/p>\n<p>Someone in Kerry has come forward and claimed their prize, which came via a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lottery.ie\/game-information\/lotto\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Quick Pick<\/a> ticket, sold on Thursday 16th July at Deo&#8217;s Shop and Portmagee Post Office.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s emerged that the winner only decided to buy a ticket, while stopping off for an ice cream with a friend.<\/p>\n<p>The life-changing win went unnoticed for several days until the player heard a radio report about the unclaimed \u20ac1 million prize sold in Portmagee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A spur-of-the-moment ticket purchase in Portmagee last month, has led to a \u20ac1 million Lotto Plus 1 top&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":607247,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60,257306],"class_list":["post-607246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-portmagee-lotto-winner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607246","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=607246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/607247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}