Laois player two numbers off €40 million jackpot

A Laois lottery player was two numbers away from winning a whopping €40 million on Friday. 

The lucky player matched five numbers in Friday’s EuroMillions jackpot draw winning €41,399. 

The winning ticket was sold at the Applegreen service station on the M7 in Abbeyleix. 

Friday’s EuroMillions jackpot was €40,613,995. The winning numbers were 2, 15, 19, 35 and 44 and the lucky stars were 2 and 7.

Elsewhere in the midlands, a lucky lotto player in Offaly scooped €50,000 with the winning raffle numbers in Friday’s draw. The winning ticket was sold in Dolan’s on the Clara Road in Tullamore. 

Other €50,000 winning tickets were sold in Dublin, Galway, Kildare, Kilkenny, Longford, Louth, Offaly, Sligo and Waterford. It was the tenth of twelve draws in the National Lottery’s ’12 Draws of Christmas’ EuroMillions promotion.