Irish lottery winner scoops £77m

[4me2]

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</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width=416><!-- S BO --><!-- S IIMA --><TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=203 align=right border=0><TBODY><TR><TD> The biggest individual lottery prize was £197.4m, won in the US

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Dolores McNamara from Garryowen, County Limerick, scooped £77m (112m euros) in the National Lottery Euromillions draw.

She checked her ticket in a pub on Friday night to discover she had won the prize, accumulated after nine successive roll-overs.

Euromillions tickets are also sold in the UK, Austria, Belgium, Portugal, France, Luxembourg, and Spain.

The National Lottery operates Euromillions in the Republic of Ireland.

However, as its offices are closed for the Bank Holiday weekend, it will be Tuesday morning before Ms McNamara can claim her winnings.

Friday's winning numbers were 3, 19, 26, 49 and 50, and Lucky Stars 4 and 5.

Lucky Stars

To win the Euromillions jackpot, players need to match five main numbers from 1 to 50 - and 2 Lucky Star numbers from 1 to 9.

Europe's previous biggest lottery draw prize was £72m (105m euros) won on the Italian Superenalotto in May.

The UK's top Euromillions jackpot winner is Marion Richardson, from Gateshead, who won £16.7m on 9 April, 2004, two months after the game was launched.

The largest UK National Lottery jackpot win in history was £42m shared by three ticket holders on 6 January, 1996. The UK's biggest single winner revealed to date is Iris Jeffrey, from Belfast, who won £20.1m on 14 July, 2004. The world's largest individual jackpot prize was taken by Andrew Whittaker, who won $314.9m (£197.4m) in the US playing Powerball in 2002.<!-- E BO -->

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[mike-oxlong]

seriously-that's an obscene amount of money for anyone to win.....

[AJ_007]

Luck of the Irish hey (No affence to anyone who is Irish! )

I was banking on that being mine! All the interest you would earn on that, must be a few k a week @ least let alone stashed away in some high earner account.

Don't know if i can be (_|_)'d playing for just a couple of million tonight!

[CJCROCKO]

I think that she would earn £75k in interest a week if she got a 5% interest rate, THAT IS MADE £75000 a week.

[snow white]

Wow, some jackpot eh. I think I would have bought a holiday villa overseas and an house over here maybe in the country, Oh I could think of lots of things to buy....Oh well.......I can but dream.

[willyboy]

The first thing i would love to do is buy the business i work for then sack the current M.D...... wanker. obviously i'd flash the cash buy some cars houses and big busted blondes

[4me2]

The first thing i would love to do is buy the business i work for then sack the current M.D...... wanker. obviously i'd flash the cash buy some cars houses and big busted blondes

You dont sack these people you redifine their duties and give them a new job title , humilate them untill they quit .

[aufo8mycow]

LOL snow white.. You could have not only bought a house in the country....YOU COULD OF BOUGHT A COUNTRY!!!! lol although for £77m it would only be a small worthless country... May I suggest France? LOL Sorry to any French readers...just kidding HONESTLY! lol
Seriously a lot of money there but when you think of the good you could do with that. I hope she is a generous woman who will use the money wisely and help elevate some of the suffering in this world that goes on daily. Although personally, I could not see me ever being sober again! lol
Sean

[snow white]

LOL aufo8mycow, I guess you would have bought your self a pub then and all the drinks would have been on you, shame us DF members have missed a good pi** up.

[Keva]

i know her and shes giving me a million haha :tongue























i wish

[Brock]

I put it on myself. I was going to build a one bedroom mansion so the the family and in-laws couldn't stay .

[Fusen]

she checked the ticket in a pub ey, wonder when she'll leave it. week or two yet I suppose?

[DelTrotter]

Well chuffed for her 77 million hope she spends it on her self and dont succumb to idle scroungers. also a bit for charity too boot.