{"id":16334,"date":"2025-08-22T14:51:38","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T14:51:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/16334\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T14:51:38","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T14:51:38","slug":"i-misread-the-ticket-limerick-man-celebrates-following-e500k-lotto-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/16334\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I misread the ticket&#8217;: Limerick man celebrates following \u20ac500k Lotto win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A LIMERICK man who has won a whopping \u20ac500,000 after scoring the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/section\/230\/community\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Lotto&#8217;s<\/a> EuroMillions Plus top prize says he misread his ticket.<\/p>\n<p>He explains: \u201cI\u2019ve been playing EuroMillions for years, and I\u2019ve had a few decent wins, but this is certainly the biggest prize. But this time, I misread my ticket and thought I\u2019d matched less numbers than I actually had. Turns out, I was \u20ac498,000 off!\u201d he laughed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The local man made the trip to Lottery HQ to collect his cheque from the August 15 draw which was purchased from Day Today in Rathkeale.<\/p>\n<p>The Plus player is planning a family celebration and says he\u2019s grateful to be able to look after his loved ones.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>READ MORE:<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/news\/community\/1874655\/over-600-scouts-gather-in-county-limerick-village-for-national-phoenix-challenge.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Over 600 Scouts gather in County Limerick village for national Phoenix Challenge<\/a><\/p>\n<p>With tomorrow\u2019s Lotto jackpot soaring to an estimated \u20ac16.5 million, reaching its highest level since 2021, anticipation is growing across the country, as someone in Ireland could become the 9th Lotto Millionaire of 2025 this weekend.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Players dreaming of becoming Ireland\u2019s newest multi-millionaire are reminded that tickets for Saturday night\u2019s draw can be purchased in-store, through the National Lottery app or online on<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lottery.ie\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> www.lottery.ie<\/a> ahead of the 7.45pm cut-off time for sales this evening.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A LIMERICK man who has won a whopping \u20ac500,000 after scoring the Lotto&#8217;s EuroMillions Plus top prize says&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16335,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[79,889,18,19,17,14729,14730,13603],"class_list":{"0":"post-16334","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-county-limerick","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-lotto","14":"tag-national-lottery","15":"tag-rathkeale"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}