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Updated 4.34pm
SOMEWHERE IN THE country, someone is probably having the best day of their lives today.
As you’ve probably heard by now, the winning Euromillions ticket for the €86.7 million jackpot last night was sold in Ireland. (We’ll give you a minute to go and double-check your ticket before you continue reading this. Finished? Ok).
However they’ll have to contain their excitement: it’s going to be a few days before they can get their mitts on the gigantic cheque.
A spokesperson from the National Lottery explained the wait: “The prize money must be transferred from all participating lotteries across Europe so it’ll be close to Thursday before that process is complete.”
The Euromillions jackpot has been won seven times in Ireland since the game began in 2004. Four of those wins have been in the past 16 months.
The National Lottery is asking this lucky winner to do three things:
Of course, there may be no rush. The winner may not want to attract publicity, especially if they have to travel to Dublin specifically to pick up the cheque – the National Lottery has not yet said where the winning ticket was sold.
The winner has exactly 90 days from the date of yesterday’s draw to claim the prize from National Lottery headquarters on Abbey Street in Dublin, so theoretically they could pick it up any time up until Thursday 18 December.
In the meantime, here are some things they could buy with their €86,700,000.
Every single one of the seven most expensive houses for sale in Ireland right now (and still have €36 million left to decorate them)
24.7 Lamborghini Veneo Roadsters, the most expensive car in the world this year (they cost €3.5 million and only nine of them have been built).
Get Beyoncé and Jay-Z to play a gig in their living room for 43 nights in a row (assuming they charge €1 million each per night).
One-fifth of the largest and most expensive yacht in the world: the Azzam, which is owned by the president of the United Arab Emirates and which cost some €448 million.
81,792,452 litres of milk (assuming that 1 litres costs €1.06), just in case they get really thirsty.
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Gardai believe it was the INLA who thought, incorrectly, he had a large sum of cash they could extort. More freedom fighters liberating Ireland one civilian murder at a time.
Charlie. Do you have any evidence to support that statement??
@Ray, it’s called Google. Now this is the best bit: You’ll be brought to newspaper reports that actually quote the Gardai. Hopefully you can find use for such technology in the deep night of your wilful ignorance.
lol Charlie, that shut him up…
Darren, the article you link to specifically states that Gardai don’t think there was any paramilitary involvement in his murder. Perhaps you could change your smug comments and stop using the murder of a man to score your tedious political points
Apologies, Darren, it was your link but Charlie’s smug comments that ground my gears. Won’t happen again, guv!
Ray the dogs on the street in South Kerry know the organisation that was involved
Charlie. Google the free library. Give’s a different slant to your’s .maybe you should read more before you call someone ignorant?
Charlie Wrex! Only people of minimal intelligence believe what’s in google as it’s only Stories from reporters (sometimes freelance)
You are an absolute nut job to even quote google as your point of reference.
So get of your computer you know all and get a life .
Back to school you dope..sorry! TROLL!!
Now if only they’d dig up the garden that Philip Cairns is supposed to be buried in.
Or the land where Mary Boyle disappeared
Awful what happend ro this family as a result of their father’s death.
why not investigate Mary Boyle as well.
There’s too many careers on the line.
Another victim of republican terrorists. It did not take long for the first what about comment to be posted in order to deflect attention away from this particular murder.
Well it didn’t take long for you to pop up even though the Gardai believe it was a criminal gang involving an ex-INLA man and not a paramilitary gang or murder. That’s why this poor man is not included under the remit of the Disappeared Commission. Stop being an oaf, Leo
Better late than never…. Right?
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