News about Euromillions lottery

A lucky player in Ireland has won the EuroMillions jackpot of an incredible 17 million euros. It’s the first EuroMillions Jackpot won in Ireland this year and the 15th Irish win since the EuroMillions started in 2004.

Always check your ticket
A National Lottery is exiting for EuroMillions players all over Ireland. Are you an EuroMillions player as well? Make sure to check your ticket to discover if you’ve won an incredible sum of money! The winning numbers this time were 24, 26, 32, 43, 46 with the Lucky Stars 6 and 10.

Reaction from spokesperson
A National Lottery spokesperson gave a reaction and called the big win ‘amazing news’. ’17 million euros is a mind-blowing sum of money. EuroMillions is ‘delighted to confirm that this lucky ticket was sold in Ireland.’ The spokesman also asks all EuroMillions winners to check their tickets very carefully, to see if they’re the new EuroMillions Jackpot winner in Ireland.

What to do when you’ve won?

Have you been lucky enough to win? Then sign the back of the ticket, keep it in a safe place and contact the National Lottery Prize Claims team on 01 836 4444. EuroMillions will make arrangements for the winner to collect the fantastic prize.

Past November a EuroMillions player won an incredible 105 million pounds. The very lucky winner has made an interesting decision: he decided to keep working instead of living a luxurious millionaire lifestyle. What’s more: two months after his won he still works as a builder.

Working in a windproof jacket
Steve Thomson from Selsey (West Sussex) is 42 years old a new millionaire. This didn’t keep him from installing double-glazed windows and a new front door at a property near his three-bedroom home. There are several pictures in which we see Steve in a black windproof jacket, jeans and a beanie. He has a hand saw and cuts the white wooden frames.

A promise to keep
It shouldn’t come as a big surprise that Steve is still working. After his win the builder promised not to let his customers down before Christmas. He said would complete all his current building jobs. So Steve is a man that keeps his word!

‘Salt of the earth’
Ellie Wood, neighbor of Steve, isn’t surprised as well and called the guy and his wife ‘salt of the earth’. He isn’t shcked at all that Steve is going to finish his building jobs before retiring. It’s ‘just the guy he is and he would never leave anyone in the lurch’, the neighbor said to the paper.

The new multi-millionaire told the British paper Mirror after his win that he would go back to work, but not until next week. He called the big win ‘really overwhelming’, which is very understandable. Steve has a wife called Lenka. He called the money ‘too much’ for them.

A new home
Steve and Lenka want to do a lot of good things with the money and, in his own words, Steve is going to be ‘sensibly generous’. Of course the couple is going to buy some nice things for themselves as well. For example, they’re planning to buy a new home so that their three children can finally have their own bedrooms.

A very lucky EuroMillions player from the United Kingdom has won 93 million pounds. He has now claimed his big prize and the ticket has been validated by a Winners Advisor. What do we know about the new millionaire?

Anonymous winner
The EuroMillions winner has decided to stay anonymous, so we don’t know a lot of details. There could also be multiple winners. Fact is that the new millionaire has made it to number six in the UK National Lottery Rich List. He or she has more money than F1 World Champion Lewis Hamilton, who has 88 million on his bank account. Poor guy!

More money than Hamilton and others

Lewis Hamilton is not the only one who has less money than this EuroMillions winner, according to the Sunday Times Rich List. After years of singing Gary Barlow ‘only’ has 65 million pounds, which is more than ‘poor’ Coldplay singer Chris Martin who has 52 million pounds. Other rich UK celebs:
• Football player Wayne Rooney: 72 million pounds
• Tennis player and Wimbledon winner Andy Murray: 48 million pounds
• Multiple Major winner Rory McIlroy: 38 million pounds

Not the biggest winner
It has been a very good year for EuroMillions so far, because this has already been the third Jackpot win. The new millionaire is not the biggest winner in EuroMillions history though. 93 million pounds is a lot, but not as much as the 161 million dollars from Chris and Colin Weir from Largs in July 2011. The biggest winners before that were Richard and Angela Maxwell from Conningsby. This lucky couple won a Jackpot of 53 million pounds!

A Belgian EuroMillions player has been very lucky recently. One night he won more than 300.000 euros! He’s not the only lucky player though. Another Belgian won more than 300.000 euros and an Irish player topped everything by winning the EuroMillions Jackpot of more than 175 million euros! How did they manage to win?

Belgian winners

Winning EuroMillions sounds very easy: your ticket numbers need to match with the numbers that appear during the draw. This is exactly what the Irish and Belgian winners did. They didn’t use a strategy, but were simply lucky enough. The Belgian who won 300.000 euros entered the five winning numbers and one winning star correctly. Together with five other Europeans the winner, who is anonymous, won an incredible 317.392,60 euros in total. The other Belgian winner also had five numbers and one star, and could add 316.859,90 euros on his or her bank account.

New Jackpot is worth millions

The Belgians players have won a lot of money, but not as much as the Irish winner who also had the second winning star. Because of that, he or she won 175,475,380.00 euros in total! The lucky numbers were 1, 8, 18, 19 and 39 and the winning stars 7 and 9 made him or her millionaire. Weren’t you as lucky as the Irish or Belgian winners? Then play again for the new Jackpot. It currently contains 17 million euros, so it’s definitely worth trying!

A family syndicate from Dublin has won the EuroMillions Jackpot, worth more than 175 million euros! They wrote history, since it’s the biggest Jackpot claimed by an Irish ticket holder ever. How did the now very rich syndicate react?

Good news

The family syndicate lives in north County Dublin, in a place called Naul. It’s located close to the border with County Meath. One of the family members bought the winning ticket at Reilly’s Daybreak in Naul. A female family member realized that Lady Fortune had been at their side when she checked the winning numbers after the draw on Tuesday evening. She heard on the news that there had been a win in Ireland and decided to check the numbers online.

Shaking legs and disbelief
It took quite some time to convince everyone in the syndicate that they had the winning ticket. Even the owner of the shop where the ticket was sold did not believe it at first. He got sick in his stomach and his legs started to shake. It was just total shock, he told the press. The family member who bought the winning ticket put it under her mattress to keep it safe. She barely slept that night, she told. Very understandable!

A dream come true
The winners did not react themselves, but have a spokesperson who is married to one of the family members. He said the family is very close and that it’s a ‘dream come true’. He says the big win is unbelievable and that it will take them some time to deal with the good news. They have to organize themselves again before realization will probably hit: their lives will never be the same.

When will the prize be paid out?

The lucky family deposited the winning ticket with the UK National Lottery to keep it safe.
Although their lives will never the same, the spokesperson of the family said that they don’t want the money to change their lives. Instead the money must be shared so that the children, grandchildren and other family members can all enjoy it. The prize will be paid out in the next couple of weeks.

Excitement in the air
On Wednesday, the family deposited the winning ticket for safe keeping with the National Lottery and arrangements are now being made for the prize claim to be paid out in the next few weeks. Obviously the small village of Naul is very excited about the big win. There’s a buzz in the year, and most people find it amazing.

Previous winners
The CEO of the National Lottery, Dermot Griffin, is obviously very content with the big win. He says it’s an incredibly lucky time for the players on this Irish island. The big win is the 14th time someone has won the EuroMillions Jackpot in Ireland. A while back, a couple living in North Ireland became millionaires when they bought the winning ticket worth 115 million euros! Another Jackpot fell during New Year’s Day draw, on the ticket of Patrick and Frances Connolly from Moira. This was the fourth biggest EuroMillions win in the United Kingdom, and the biggest to date in Northern Ireland.

Roll-over until a big win
Sometimes a single player wins a big prize as well. In 2005 Dolores McNamara from Limerick was lucky enough to win an incredible 115 million euros. She was probably very patient, since it can take a while before the Jackpot hits. Since January 2019 the Jackpot has been rolling over. If there’s going to be a winner, he or she receives a cheque worth €175,475,380. Enough reason to participate we would say!

Are you an enthusiastic EuroMillions player? Then it’s a good idea to check your lottery numbers after a draw. One winner hasn’t done this yet, while he or she has won 138 million euros! Hopefully the new millionaire will check the numbers soon, because it would be a shame to miss so much money.

The winner: still a mystery

The numbers on the winning ticket were 25, 27, 39, 42 and 47. The Lucky Star numbers were also correct, namely 11 and 12. It’s not known if it’s an individual, a family or even a company has won the Jackpot, since the winner hasn’t come forward yet. If the person happens to be Dutch, he or she immediately makes the list of 300 richest people in the Netherlands!

Among the richest people of Great Britain
The life of this EuroMillions is changed forever, if he or she comes forward of course. According to the BBC, the new multimillionaire will be as rich as some famous British millionaires. For example, writer E.L James from ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ has 142 million euros and Earl Spender, brother of the late princess Diana, has a total net worth of 140 million euros.

The many great prizes and record-breaking Jackpot of EuroMillions

According to Camelot, the company behind lottery, this prize is one of the biggest in British history. In its 15-year-old history, only twice as many prizes were given to a winner of the EuroMillions Lottery. It comes as no surprise that this lottery is very popular. Just take a look at the Jackpot! Currently you can become a EuroMillions player in nine European countries, including the Netherlands, Belgium and Great Britain.