Christmas came early for one lucky Lotto player in Drogheda who has won €50,000 in Friday’s EuroMillions ‘Ireland Only Raffle’.
The National Lottery is urging players nationwide to check their weekend lottery tickets following huge raffle wins in this weekend’s EuroMillions and Lotto draws.
The Drogheda winner, who bought their ticket at Daybreak/Applegreen, The Waterfront, Drogheda, was one of ten playersfrom around the country to win €50,000 each in the tenth of twelve draws in the National Lottery’s ’12 Draws of Christmas’ EuroMillions promotion.
This raffle event means that ten players will scoop €50,000 each in every EuroMillions draw every Tuesday and Friday between November 15th and December 23rd.  
There are only two draws left in this promotion. The next draw will take place this Tuesday 20th of December where ten more players are guaranteed to win €50,000 each.
Meanwhile, there were even more winners in Saturday night’s Lotto draw which saw 96 players get a massive boost to their winnings as the National Lottery topped up the Lotto Plus Raffle with an additional €1 million. Last night, there were 96 Raffle winners which meant the boosted prize fund divided out to a prize of €10,917, for each Raffle winner.
The winning Lotto Plus Raffle number was: 5746
There was no winner of last night’s Lotto jackpot which was worth €8,847,086. Next Wednesday’s (21st December) Lotto jackpot is set to roll to a massive €9.2 million.  
A National Lottery spokesperson said: “It has been a fantastic weekend for many of our players who got the perfect Christmas boost in our EuroMillions and Lotto Raffles.
“We are urging all our players to carefully check their tickets to see if they are one of the weekend’s big winners. We are urging our big EuroMillions winners from the weekend to contact the National Lottery prize claims team on 1800 666 222 or email claims@lottery.ie and arrangements will be made for them to claim their prize before Christmas.
