{"id":205448,"date":"2025-11-28T21:52:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T21:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/205448\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T21:52:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T21:52:09","slug":"four-cork-players-win-big-with-national-lottery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/205448\/","title":{"rendered":"Four Cork players win big with National Lottery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"contextmenu internal_Body1st\">Four Cork National Lottery players are celebrating wins this weekend after buying tickets or scratch cards in Midleton, Hollyhill, and the city centre.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">A Cork man walked away with the largest cheque of the week, after winning \u20ac1m on the Lotto Plus 1 draw on Saturday, November 1, with a ticket purchased at Tesco, Market Green Shopping Centre, Midleton.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">After reading in the local paper that a big win had yet to be claimed in Midleton, he checked his ticket and realised he had won \u20ac1m, but kept the news to himself for the rest of the day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">\n            \u201cI didn\u2019t tell anyone, not even my wife, and went to work as normal, although my head was absolutely scrambled. I knew I had to contact the National Lottery before heading home, just to be sure.\u201d\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Later that evening, he shared the news: \u201cThe newspaper was left on the dinner table, so I asked them what they would do if they won the prize money. When I told them I had the winning ticket, it was madness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">He plans to celebrate with a family trip to Disneyland Paris and a home renovation project.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Two siblings from Cork, who have been in a syndicate together for many years, also claimed a Lotto Match 5 plus Bonus prize of \u20ac292,572 after purchasing a winning ticket at Costcutter on Bridge St in Cork. One of the siblings is looking forward to doing some home improvements, while the other has their sights set on a brand new kitchen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">A Cork woman also won \u20ac50,000, the top prize amount on a \u20ac5 Merry Money scratch card after purchasing the winning card in Applegreen, Hollyhill, on Harbour View Rd.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">\u201cWe are going to treat ourselves, the plan is a new car for my husband and a designer pair of heels and handbag for me \u2014 it really is the perfect excuse to enjoy a little luxury,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">\u201cWe are absolutely over the moon with the win, and can\u2019t quite believe it. You never expect something like this to happen.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four Cork National Lottery players are celebrating wins this weekend after buying tickets or scratch cards in Midleton,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":205449,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[79,18,19,17,14729,14730],"class_list":{"0":"post-205448","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-lotto","13":"tag-national-lottery"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115629546087235157","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205448","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=205448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}