Donegal store celebrates end of 28 year Lotto “famine” after selling ticket worth over quarter of a million euro

The store last sold two winning tickets in the space of three weeks back in 1990.

A store in rural north Donegal is celebrating the end of a 28-year high-win Lotto "famine" after it sold a Match 5+ Bonus ticket worth €284,964 in Saturday night's Lotto draw (21 April). Situated 18km outside Derry City, the Eurospar store in Newtown Cunningham had previously sold two Lotto jackpot winning tickets within the space of three weeks of each other back in 1990. Twenty-eight years later, they are celebrating their return to "lotto luck" with a winning Normal Play Lotto ticket having been sold on Wednesday, 18 April The Eurospar owner, Anthony Kernan expressed his joy at the ending of this streak, saying: "We’re a very lucky Lotto shop but we’ve had a wee bit of a wait since our last big jackpot wins in 1990. "We were the very first shop to sell a winning Lotto jackpot ticket for a Wednesday night draw when one of our customers won the £367,000 prize in May 1990. Incredibly, we had another winning Lotto jackpot ticket just three weeks later when we sold a ticket worth £141,000. "Good things certainly come to those who wait so we are absolutely thrilled that somebody in the locality has picked up such a large Lotto prize." There was no winner of the €5.4 million Lotto jackpot. However, more than 71,000 players won prizes in Saturday’s Lotto draws. As a result of this, the National Lottery is now encouraging all of its players to check their tickets. Meanwhile, the Wednesday, 25 April Lotto jackpot will now head for a total of €6 million.