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Irish Lottery Jackpots
The luck of the Irish is often on display when we here of huge lottery jackpots. Not only do the Irish Lottery jackpots regularly exceed the €15 million mark but one of the world’s biggest ever lottery winners bought their winning Euromillions ticket in Ireland too.
The first significant Irish Lottery jackpot was set in November 1996 when a massive €9,505,290 was scooped by one lucky ticket holder. This monumental record Irish Lottery jackpot was so big that it stood for over a decade. It wasn’t until November 2006, when the Irish Lottery changed its format that this record was broken and the big jackpots started occurring.
Since the change in the way that you choose Irish Lottery numbers took place there have been numerous headline-grabbing jackpots won. The biggest of these Irish Lottery jackpots was won in June 2008 when a lottery syndicate made up of sixteen workers from a quarry and concrete plant matched all six main lottery numbers to walk away with €18,963,441 between them.
The second biggest of the record Irish Lottery jackpots was won in April 2010 when just one lucky ticket holder matched all of the lottery numbers correctly to win €16,717,717 to themselves. Closely following this huge prize is the €16,185,749 prize which was won by a family from Cork in July 2007, which makes it to number three in the Irish Lottery jackpots league table.
Along with Irish Lottery jackpots, players from Ireland have also landed some pretty big EuroMillions too. The biggest of these pan-European lottery jackpots to make their way to the Emerald Isle is the phenomenal €115,436,126 prize which was won by 45-year-old part-time cleaner, Dolores McNamara from Limerick in July 2005. This almighty jackpot came on the back of nine rollover draws and was the biggest prize won by a Euromillions player until the record was broken in May 2009.
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