2025 turned out to be an enormous yr for Irish Lotto gamers, with the biggest prize ever gained within the nation – a record-breaking €250 million within the EuroMillions jackpot.
In complete, 29 gamers in Eire gained prizes value €1 million and above, making 2025 “a very unforgettable yr”.
With two EuroMillions jackpots, 9 Lotto jackpots and 7 Day by day Million prime prizes, fortunate gamers nationwide joined the ranks of Eire’s latest millionaires in 2025.
Over the 12-month interval, the Lotto jackpot was gained 9 occasions by gamers in Dublin, Kerry, Kilkenny, Limerick, Louth, Waterford, Mayo and Westmeath.
The spotlight of 2025 got here on June 17, when a household syndicate claimed the biggest cheque ever seen – an astonishing €250 million.
The profitable ticket was bought at Clifford’s Centra on Shandon Road in Cork, and marked the 18th Irish EuroMillions jackpot win.
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Following the unimaginable win, one of many syndicate members even admitted that they’d “nonetheless be having my favorite ham and cheese sambo for lunch day by day.”
The biggest Lotto jackpot of the yr additionally marked the third highest quantity ever gained within the recreation, when a Mayo household syndicate scooped €17,008,295 after buying their ticket on-line for the August 27 draw.
Simply six months later, December 12, one other household syndicate celebrated Eire’s nineteenth EuroMillions jackpot win, taking house €17 million with a ticket purchased at Lidl Cavan, Creighan, Athlone Street.
The Mayo household stated on the time: “I want I might say that the information has sunk in by now however I’m ready for hidden cameras to come out and inform us that that is all an enormous joke.
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“The previous couple of weeks are a complete blur, and I nonetheless get up in the course of the night time questioning is that this actual or only a mad dream.
“We’re all in shock and you’d suppose sitting within the Winners Room would assist, however we simply can’t consider it.”
A Wicklow girl grew to become the first-ever EuroDreams participant in Eire to win €20,000 monthly for 30 years on September 8.
She gained the Tier 1 prize value a complete of €7.2 million.
The winner claimed her prize after matching six numbers and the dream quantity within the Monday night time draw.
She left Lottery HQ with no bodily cheque because the annuity funds shall be made straight into her checking account for the following 30 years.
Forty-one gamers gained prizes between €500,000 and slightly below €1 million throughout all video games, from draw-based video games to scratch playing cards.
The EuroMillions Plus recreation noticed an unimaginable 31 gamers take house €500,000, whereas six gamers gained €500,000 every in Day by day Million Plus attracts.
Two gamers shared the €1,000,000 Day by day Million jackpot on September 26, profitable €500,000 every.
A Nationwide Lottery spokesperson stated: “2025 was really an unimaginable yr for the Nationwide Lottery, and as we step into 2026, we’re excited to see what the following 12 months will carry for our gamers.”
