The festive spirit was alive and well at Lotto HQ today as a Dublin family syndicate claimed €2.5 million.
The family, who nabbed the bumper €2,521,015 payout in October 4 EuroMillions draw, waited more than two months to claim their prize.
The Match 5 + One Lucky Star winning ticket was sold on October 3 at Kane’s/McCartney’s SuperValu in the seaside town of Donabate in north Dublin.
The quick pick ticket fell one lucky star number (numbered between one and 12) short of winning the €190 million jackpot, which would have been one of the biggest ever lottery jackpot prize wins in Europe.
They have decided to stay anonymous and joined another family from Kilkenny that was collecting a whopper €6.8 million win.
A representative for the family said: "We found out a couple of days after the draw when I scanned the ticket. I just felt numb and went online to double check the numbers. It took a bit of time before I found the right words to announce it to the rest of these guys.
"When we eventually got everyone in the room and I told them, there was great excitement. We came down from our cloud eventually and sought financial advice and waited until the news properly sunk in before we made our claim."
And revealing the family's plans, they said that right now they're not looking past Christmas.
They continued: "A few of us are just going to clear our mortgages to start and then we will all settle down and make further spending plans in the New Year.
"I mean, I collect the money off all the family at the start of every year and when we’re all paying in, you never really expect that a moment like this will actually happen so, even though the good news has sunk in, this is still a surreal moment.
"I’m looking no further than Christmas time and am looking forward to making it a memorable one with everybody."
