A filling station in Tullow, Co. Carlow is this morning toasting their second top prize National Lottery win in just a matter of days after they sold the winning ticket for last night’s EuroMillions Plus top prize of €500,000. Just days ago, they sold a winning National Lottery scratch card prize worth €200,000.
EuroMillions players in Carlow who purchased their tickets at the incredibly lucky O’Toole’s Service station on the Bunclody Road in Tullow Town are now being urged to check their tickets today. So far in 2019, there have been a 27 winners of the €500,000 EuroMillion Plus top prize in Ireland.
Owner of the winning O’Tooles’s service station in Tullow, Joe O’Toole spoke of his delight at selling two top prize National Lottery tickets worth a combined €700,000 within a matter of days. “We’re just absolutely flabbergasted in the shop and the excitement in the town is absolutely indescribable! Only yesterday, I was speaking to the National Lottery about the winning scratch card worth €200,000 which was sold in the recently and late last night, I got another phone call from the National Lottery to confirm this latest win. I’m still in a state of disbelief, I mean, what are the chances of selling two top prize winning National Lottery tickets in a small country store within a matter of days? It’s just brilliant.”
The winning EuroMillions Plus numbers for last night’s draw were: 05, 13, 22, 39 and 46.
Store owner, Joe O’Toole is now planning a celebratory event in his store for staff and the local community and he has also called on all of his customers to carefully check their tickets to see if they are the lucky winners.
“Genuinely, we are just thrilled for the winner and we are desperately hoping that it is a deserving person from the area. We have a very loyal group of local customers who keep the business alive, so we’ll be throwing a huge party in the store today and I’m encouraging anybody in the area to come down to the shop to enjoy the celebrations and of course to check their tickets to see if they are €500,000 richer,” he added.
While there was no winner of the €104 million EuroMillions jackpot but there were more than 54,000 players won prizes in Ireland on last night’s draw.
