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08th Jul 2017

These are the ten previous occasions the Euromillions jackpot has been won in Ireland

Over €1 billion has been won on the Euromillions in Ireland since 2004.

Conor Heneghan

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We don’t who number 11 on the list is just yet…

Someone in Ireland woke up almost €29 million richer on Saturday morning after there was an Irish winner of the Euromillions jackpot for the second time in the space of seven months.

Details on the mystery winner and the location where the winning ticket was bought have yet to be revealed, but what we do know is that the jackpot win brings to over €1 billion the total in Irish Euromillions wins since the game was launched in 2004.

A National Lottery spokesperson has appealed to all Euromillions players to check their tickets to see if they have won the magic amount; in case you haven’t seen them yet, the winning numbers for the €28,975,630 jackpot are 11, 20, 35, 37 and 45. The bonus numbers are 3 and 6.

“This is an incredible amount of money to win,” the spokesperson said.

“We have no idea if it is one player or a syndicate. We are delighted to have another Irish winner of Euromillions. We urge all of our players to check their tickets to see if their numbers have come up.”

This is the 11th time the Euromillions jackpot has been won in Ireland; below is a list of all the previous Irish Euromillions winners to date:

  1. July 2005: Dolores McNamara, from Limerick, was Ireland’s first and biggest Euromillions winner, scooping over €115 million.
  2. July 2008: A lucky ticket bought in Carrick-on-Suir in Co. Tipperary won a player a €15 million jackpot.
  3. June 2009: A family syndicate shared the jackpot with a British winner, taking home over €29.4 million.
  4. June 2013: A winning ticket sold in Beaumount, Dublin, shared a jackpot worth over €93 million.
  5. September 2013: A young man from the South East shared a jackpot of over €25 million with a player in Spain, taking home over €12.8 million.
  6. April 2014: A jackpot prize worth €15 million was claimed on a ticket sold in Castlebar, Co. Mayo.
  7. September 2014: An €86.7 million jackpot was won by a syndicate from Dublin (private). The ticket was sold in Centra, Ballybrack, Co. Dublin.
  8. January 2016: A syndicate of friends won over €66 million, splitting the jackpot of €132,376,632. The ticket was sold in Eason’s store, Fairgreen Shopping Centre, Carlow.
  9. July 2016: 22 colleagues from Dublin Bus won the €23.8 million jackpot. The ticket was sold in O’Hanlon’s in Portarlington.
  10. January 2017: A Dublin work syndicate claimed the €88.5 million Euromillions jackpot. The winning ticket was sold at the Applegreen Service Station on the M1 Northbound in Lusk, Co. Dublin.

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