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THE WINNER OF last night’s bumper €7.1 million jackpot has contacted the National Lottery.
The winner bought their ticket online and it’s been confirmed as the biggest ever win by an online player. The precise winnings were €7,179,959.
The National Lottery says that an online player has only ever won the jackpot on five occasions, the previous record was €5.5 million back in 2010
Given that the winning ticket was bought online there is no location for where the winner hails from.
Separately, another millionaire was made last night when someone won the Lotto’s Daily Million draw.
That winner came from Dublin with the winning ticket purchased in Ormsby’s newsagents on the North Circular Road.
Shop owners, John and Paula Ormsby said there’s been excitement among customers after news of the win came out.
“Our shop opened 30 years ago and we have been selling Lotto tickets from the start,” they said.
“Our customers are very much locals. There is lots of speculation as to who the winner might be but we hope it is one of our regulars.”
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Genuine question: As a qualified doctor would she not be many times more valuable working for her own people in Sudan than over here? There are probably Irish volunteer doctors working in Sudan.
@Tony Murphy: depending on her specialty. She probably arrived to work in Ireland on an Employment Permit, which was sponsored by the hospital that wanted to employ her. Before the permit was issued the government satisfied themselves that there was a shortage of that doctors type in Ireland and the EU and that having her working at the Irish hospital would be beneficial to Ireland.
There are good few Irish doctors and nurses who decide to go work abroad, because the salary is much higher in other countries (US and UAE), and the work intensity is about the same or lower. This causes shortage id doctors in Ireland, requiring hospitals to seek for doctors abroad. But you choose to blame the symptom, not the cause of the problem.
@Clay Pigeon: Yeah sure, buddy….
Sudanese refugees incoming
Here come the fascists…?
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