Mullingar €500k EuroMillions winner claims their prize

(Above) Noel Jessop and Warrick McDonald at the Centra shop at Texaco Robinstown in Mullingar.

The person who won €500,000 in a recent EuroMillions draw with a ticket bought in a Mullingar service station has claimed their prize and revealed that he was walking around with the ticket in his pocket for days before he realised his good fortune.

The lucky person claimed the top prize of half a million euros in the the EuroMillions Plus draw on 30 March. Their winning ticket was purchased in the Centra shop at the Texaco Robinstown in Mullingar.

Speaking this week, the winner revealed that he took his time to check if his ticket had won a prize as it was a few days before he realised his good fortune.

“I scanned the ticket on my phone and got the message to contact National Lottery Head Office for news of my prize. When I checked the results myself and saw that I had the EuroMillions Plus numbers, I was shivering and shaking. I was in complete shock. At that point, I had been walking around with the ticket in my pocket for two days before I even thought of checking it – little did I know that I had a ticket worth half a million euro on me the whole time!” he said.

The winner has clear plans for how he will put his winnings to good use.

“I’ll be able to clear my mortgage now which will be a huge relief to have out of the way. After that, I’ll look after family and take my time deciding what to do next.”

Nearly 30 cent in every €1 spent on all National Lottery games goes back to Good Causes in the areas of sport, youth, health, welfare, education, arts, heritage and the Irish Language. In total more than €5.8 Billion has been raised for Good Causes since the National Lottery was established 33 years ago. In 2020 alone, €254 million was raised for local Good Causes in communities across Ireland.