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Two separate winners from Galway and Meath have visited lottery offices to collect a total of €608,940 in EuroMillions prize money.
The winning party from Co Galway are a young couple who won €369,791 after they won the Match 5 + Lucky Star prize on the EuroMillions draw on Friday, February 3rd.
The woman told of how an inadvertent news bulletin had led to their discovery of their winnings.
“I had heard on the local radio station that a shop in Galway had sold the winning EuroMillions ticket and I didn’t think much more about it.
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“When my husband came home, I casually mentioned it to him in passing and he went as pale as a ghost!
“Frantically, he started searching through his tickets and lo and behold, there it was – the winning ticket worth almost €370,000,” she said.
The winning quick-pick ticket was purchased at Glynns Centra in Oranmore, Co Galway, on the day of the draw.
‘Beyond wildest dreams’
“This win is beyond our wildest dreams. This will bring us immediate financial security for many years to come.
“We have a very young family and we owe it to them to give them the very best start in life,’ she said.
Among the other winners through the doors of National Lottery offices in Dublin was a Meath man who picked up a cheque for €239,149.
The man had won the EuroMillions Match 5 + Lucky Star prize on Tuesday, January 17th.
The man, who wishes to keep his win private, purchased the quick-pick ticket at the Tesco store in Ashbourne, Co Meath on the day of the draw.
After waiting over four weeks to collect his prize, he said he had taken some time to plan on how to spend his winnings.
‘A blessed life’
“I have always considered myself to be very lucky to have a wonderful family and a blessed life. To win a quarter of a million euro is just the cherry on top.
“After I pay some bills and look after my daughter’s college fees, I will definitely be treating myself to a flash sports car in the coming weeks,” he said.
Members of a Dublin work syndicate won €88.5 million in the EuroMillions jackpot last month.
The single winning ticket was sold in an Applegreen service station on the M1 motorway in Lusk, Co Dublin.