{"id":627632,"date":"2026-09-17T16:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T16:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/627632\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T16:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T16:10:09","slug":"complete-disbelief-cork-man-wins-e2000-per-month-for-next-five-years-in-eurodreams-draw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/627632\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Complete disbelief&#8217;: Cork man wins \u20ac2,000 per month for next five years in EuroDreams draw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\"> A <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.echolive.ie\/corknews\/\">Cork<\/a> man has become one of the latest EuroDreams winners, bagging a lottery prize worth \u20ac2,000 per month for the next five years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"> The Cork man has been notified of his winnings and claimed his prize at the National Lottery HQ this week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"> After purchasing an online EuroDreams ticket for a draw on July 30, he won a Tier 2 prize, which will see him receive a total of \u20ac120,000 by 2031.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"> Speaking about his winnings, the man said: \u201cI genuinely hadn\u2019t realised I\u2019d won\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"> \u201cThe Claims Team were trying to get in touch with me and when they eventually did, I kept checking everything over and over again,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"> \u201cI must have looked at it a hundred times and I still couldn&#8217;t believe it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"> &#8220;When the Claims Team said &#8216;congratulations&#8217; on the phone, my reaction was just, &#8216;Oh my God!&#8217; It was complete disbelief.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"> Collecting his prize at National Lottery HQ, the winner said the experience still hadn&#8217;t fully sunk in, but he is looking forward to putting the monthly payments towards some long-planned home improvements.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"> &#8220;The prize is going towards some major home renovations, so I suppose there will be a few visible signs of the win around the house before long,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"> Similar to the Cork winner, another player in Westmeath was also unaware of their win until they were contacted by the National Lottery Claims Team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">&#8220;When the Claims Team called me, I wasn&#8217;t sure what to make of it, so I went and checked everything myself,\u201d the Westmeath player said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"> After reviewing their National Lottery account and the draw results, the winner realised the news was genuine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"> &#8220;I checked my account and checked the numbers and realised it was actually true,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"> \u201cGetting a phone call to say you&#8217;ve won \u20ac2,000 every month isn&#8217;t something that happens every day, so I was completely shocked.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"> The winner said the monthly payments will allow them to plan a few extra treats over the coming years, with a winter getaway already high on the agenda.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"> &#8220;I&#8217;d love to head away somewhere sunny during the winter months. Dubai is definitely top of the list,&#8221; they added. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Cork man has become one of the latest EuroDreams winners, bagging a lottery prize worth \u20ac2,000 per&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":627633,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[169823,72,79,61,60],"class_list":["post-627632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-echo-instagram","tag-business","tag-cork-news","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627632","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=627632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/627633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}