Leitrim not the luckiest when it comes to big lotto wins

Proving the old adage 'you can't have it all' Leitrim may be a brilliant county to live in and visit, but it isn't the luckiest when it comes to lottery wins.

Leitrim had only five top tier winners over the past three years and none of these were millionaires. In fact only €254,402 was shared between these five winners.

According to figures released recently by the National Lottery,  millionaires have been created since 2020 with Dublin, Cork, Galway and Mayo leading the way with big wins.

Nationally more than 1,100 players sharing over €470 million alone in high tier prizes across all draw-based games.

This is according to the National Lottery ‘high tier prizes report’ which captures all draw based game prize wins (Lotto, EuroMillions, Daily Million, Telly Bingo and Millionaire Raffle) in excess of €15,000 (€10,000 for online wins) from January 2020 until January 2023.

Since 2020, Dublin has unsurprisingly topped the charts for National Lottery wins with over €68m paid out to 275 players, 22 of which won prizes in excess of €1 million.

In the last three years, 10 separate millionaires were made in Co Cork while Galway and Mayo have had six new millionaires each.  

Online players continued to win big for the past three years also with 194 winners claiming over €95m in high tier prizes. Included in these winners were 17 brand new millionaires, the biggest of which was in Dublin with a  EuroMillions jackpot of €49.5m in July 2020.

 Already in 2023, a total of four brand new millionaires have been made in the Lotto game alone.