Lotto players across Kilkenny have been put on high alert this morning after officials from the National Lottery confirmed the winning Quick Pick ticket was bought in a Kilkenny store.
Someone in the Leinster county has scooped over €12m after matching up their numbers with the winning balls from last night's draw.
But there could've been more than one winner if people had listened to one Kilkenny native, who's tweet just hours before the draw came true.
Gary Bryan saw six magpies yesterday afternoon.
Anyone who knows anything about magpie mythology knows that it's one for sorrow, two for joy, three for a girl and four for a boy.
It's five for silver - but it's six for gold.
He implored those in Kilkenny to "do the lotto" and said that someone in Kilkenny would "strike gold" later that night.
Lo and behold, they did, with the jackpot of the main draw being won in the region.
The ticket holder who has yet to make contact with the National Lottery to claim their prize has officially become the 12 th largest Lotto jackpot winner in the history of the game.
We should know the winning store any time now - but it wasn't just the Kilkenny native that won big.
Ticket holders in Co. Laois are also being asked to check their tickets after the Lotto Plus 2 top prize of €250,000 was won with a Quick Pick ticket purchased at the Corrib Oil service station in Fairgreen in Portlaoise on the day of the draw.
Meanwhile, two further players in Cavan and Dublin also came agonisingly close to sharing the €12.7 million jackpot on offer after they won the Match 5 + Bonus prize which was worth €416,263.
The winning Cavan Quick Pick ticket was sold at Cullies Mace services station on the Ballyhayes Road in Cavan Town while the other ticket in Dublin was sold at the Circle K store/Sundrive service station on Lower Kimmage Road in Dublin 6 W.
