{"id":609638,"date":"2026-07-29T08:18:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T08:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/609638\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T08:18:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T08:18:12","slug":"winning-e8-2m-lotto-ticket-sold-at-obama-plaza-%c2%b7-thejournal-ie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/609638\/","title":{"rendered":"Winning \u20ac8.2m Lotto ticket sold at Obama Plaza \u00b7 TheJournal.ie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THE WINNER OF Saturday night\u2019s Lotto jackpot of \u20ac8.22 million purchased their winning Quick Pick ticket at Obama Plaza in Moneygall, Co Offaly, the National Lottery said.<\/p>\n<p>The winner has come forward and arrangements are being made for them to collect their prize.<\/p>\n<p>Founder and managing director of Supermac\u2019s and the Plaza Group, Pat McDonagh, said the team are \u201cabsolutely thrilled\u201d to hear the winning ticket was sold at Obama Plaza.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s wonderful to think that someone simply dropping in has had their life changed forever.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEveryone here is hugely excited by the news and we would like to congratulate the winner of this incredible prize.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe hope they take the time to enjoy the moment, celebrate with their loved ones and make the very most of this life-changing win. On behalf of everyone at Obama Plaza, we wish them every happiness for the future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The win brings the total number of millionaires created through National Lottery games this year to 19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"THE WINNER OF Saturday night\u2019s Lotto jackpot of \u20ac8.22 million purchased their winning Quick Pick ticket at Obama&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":609639,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[73],"tags":[79,18,19,17,14729,103047,14730,257408,3171,15577],"class_list":["post-609638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-eire","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-lotto","tag-moneygall","tag-national-lottery","tag-obama-plaza","tag-offaly","tag-pat-mcdonagh"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117002286286860881","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609638","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=609638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/609639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}