Two lucky punters are celebrating after officially collecting massive Lotto prizes.
One Dubliner managed to match five numbers and a bonus ball during the April 14 draw.
He shared the €416,263 prize with a Cavan player - pocketing €208,132 from his ticket, bought at the Circle K service station on the Lower Kimmage Road.
The lucky winner remained cool and collected as he recounted checking his ticket, saying: "Trying to convince my family that I had the winning ticket was probably the biggest challenge.
"I showed them as I checked my ticket on the app along with a few other tickets that had smaller wins on them.
"I purposely scanned the tickets with smaller wins first and then when we got to the big one, I got the message to say that I had won a big prize and to contact the National Lottery so they believed me then - I was telling them see, it was me who won it!
"They were definitely getting excited then.”
The win came on the same night that the €12.7 million jackpot was won by a Kilkenny player and the Lotto Plus 2 top prize was won by a player in Laois.
Remarkably, the second winner from Limerick netted a cool €100,000 while playing the €5 Cash Showdown 'Instant Win' game on the Lotto website.
The Treaty County winner was worried that they were seeing things while playing the online game.
They said: "I had played the game a few times before so I knew how it went but I had never expected to see the top prize amount appear.
"The €100,000 amount came up on the first screen of the game so I was panicking for the remainder of playing as I couldn’t go back to double check it – I had to play to the end so those few moments felt like forever!
"I was delighted when it was confirmed that I wasn’t seeing things and all those zeros really were there.”
The overjoyed winner plans to use the money to help their family, adding: “Helping family is my priority and I’m delighted to be in a situation that I can do that.”
