SO it wasn’t a local winner after all.

A hard-working mother from Co. Cork is today (Monday) celebrating a quarter of a million euro win after she picked up her massive prize from Lotto HQ in Dublin City after she won the Lotto Plus 2 top prize on Saturday 12th October.

The lucky mother who wishes for her win to remain private discussed how she was on a well-earned spa break in Co. Kerry when she bought her winning ticket in Garveys SuperValu on Rock Street on her way to a local spa.

“You really couldn’t make it up!” she laughed. “I had been looking forward to the spa break for such a long time and on the way to Kerry, I randomly decided to stop off and get a Lotto ticket as an extra treat for my little break. I had the most relaxing weekend ever and I barely looked at my phone to get messages, let alone to check the Lotto numbers. All that time I was chilling out in Kerry and I had no idea that I had a ticket worth a quarter of a million euro in my handbag. It wasn’t until I got home that I found out. I read that the winning ticket was sold in Kerry and I had to do a double take to tell myself, ‘hang-on, I bought a ticket in Kerry’ – It was just incredible,” she said.

The winning Lotto Plus 2 winning ticket was purchased on Saturday 12th October at Garvey’s Supervalu in Tralee.

The woman admitted that while her family have been quietly celebrating for the past week, the reality of the size of their Lotto prize has yet to sink in.

“It’s been a mad house for the past week and I don’t think that we’ve really come to terms with it yet. We are a hard-working family so we won’t be getting carried away with it. What this win does mean is that it puts us into a very good position to provide the very best for our family with education costs and whatnot. We won’t rush into any mad spending until we get a proper plan in place for everybody,” she added.

TRALEE Lotto players have today been urged to check their tickets after Wednesday night’s Lotto draw produced a Match 5 + Bonus winner of €149,347.

The winning Quick Pick ticket was purchased on the day of the draw, Wednesday, at the O’Connor’s Topaz SPAR in Rathass, Tralee. The winning Lotto numbers were: 11, 26, 32, 36, 42, 47 and the Bonus: 34

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Ciaran O’Connor, owner of the lucky Service Station in Rathass said; “It’s brilliant news for our customers! We are right in the middle of a store refurbishment at the moment so it’s a great reward for our customers who have loyally stuck with us during the renovation period. There’s a special buzz in the shop this morning as some of the locals check their tickets in the hope of winning the prize but there is no sign of the winner yet,” he said.

The shop sold a €250,000 winner three years ago and had a big Telly Bingo winner last year so it’s becoming a lucky place to play lottery games.

SOMEONE who bought their ticket in Kerry is €250,000 richer after winning the Lotto 2 draw last night.

The winning Quick Pick ticket was sold in Kenmare at the Supervalu store on Railway Road.

The winning Lotto Plus 2 numbers were: 01, 17, 30, 33, 35, 43 and the bonus number was 2.

Manager at SuperValu Kenmare Derry Murphy says it’s great news which they received this morning from National Lottery headquarters.

The National Lottery is advising the lucky winner to come forward and claim their prize, that they should sign the back of the ticket and contact the National Lottery Prize Claims Team on 01 836 4444.