The National Lottery has said one lucky – or potentially very unlucky – player has just days left to claim a \u20ac500,000 winning prize ticket bought in a Co Donegal shop.<\/p>\n
The winning ticket was purchased on Friday 10 October at Darnell’s Spar and Applegreen filling station on the Portnoo Road, Ardara.<\/p>\n
It was a Daily Million Plus draw, with the winning numbers 9, 16, 24, 29, 32, 38. The bonus number was 5.<\/p>\n
Maire\u00e1d Darnell, the shop owner, said that there are nine days left during which the ticket holder must claim their winnings.<\/p>\n
She said it has been the talk of the parish, as it was assumed the ticket would have been redeemed long ago.<\/p>\n
Ms Darnell said there had been “huge excitement” locally following the discovery that the winning ticket had been bought in the area.<\/p>\n
“Everybody was expecting that the word would be out within a matter of hours or days as to whether or not it was claimed initially, and hopefully that we would find out who it was.<\/p>\n
“No, time has just been ticking by since and I’m afraid we still don’t have a winner,” she said.<\/p>\n
Ms Darnell said that a “huge social media campaign” has been undertaken and the National Lottery’s support has been “fantastic”.<\/p>\n
She said that the theory is that a local person would be cutting fine at this stage to claim the winnings.<\/p>\n
She said where they are located on the ocean’s edge in south-west Donegal, “it’s not a place where we would have a lot of passing through traffic, it’s more a destination place, we do have an awful lot of tourism”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The National Lottery has said one lucky – or potentially very unlucky – player has just days left…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264108,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[79,18,19,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-264107","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"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115827762415297147","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264107","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=264107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}