The National Lottery has this morning appealed to Lotto players in Co. Kilkenny to check their Lotto tickets after one lucky ticketholder scooped last night’s Lotto jackpot worth €6,834,410.

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“I was in the kitchen on Saturday evening when I heard roaring in the sitting room. My partner was watching the Lotto draw on TV and was absolutely fixated on the screen with his Lotto ticket firmly grasped in his hand."

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Have you noticed a few colleagues missing from work today?

What would you do if you had all the money in the world?

Suspicions were raised when a person with a winning ticket chose anonymity rather than claiming the $16.5m prize. Details of a massive scam soon emerged, writes Reid Forgrave

The National Lottery was blocked from releasing scratch cards based on the popular Monopoly board game — because the lotto watchdog feared they would appeal to children.

A Canadian teenager who purchased her first lottery ticket to celebrate her 18th birthday has hit the jackpot and will receive 1,000 Canadian dollars (€626.83) a week for the rest of her life.

Residents of Ballyhaise village in Co Cavan are today being urged to check their tickets after Friday night’s EuroMillions draw produced a EuroMillions Plus top prize winner of €500,000.

A Christmas Day lottery glitch in South Carolina has left officials trying to determine how to deal with hundreds of unexpected winners.

The search is on for a new big-ticket Lotto winner in Kildare.

A Cork man who won over €250,000 in a EuroMillions draw last month will be quickly returning to work this evening after collecting his winnings from National Lottery HQ.

There was no winner of tonight’s Lotto jackpot of more than €2m.

He just wanted a bit of time to think about it.

There was no winner of tonight's Lotto Jackpot, worth €3,965,588.

Here’s how this is going to go. I’m going to go off on one about something. Then someone with a bit of due diligence and facts will calmly cut through the bluster.

A Christmas dream could soon turn into a nightmare for the owner of a lotto ticket worth €1m as they only have days to claim their prize.

A solicitor who represented a woman being sued over a one-sixth share of a €3.38m Lotto win has told the High Court that there was no mention to her that a house was being transferred to her client’s stepson instead of cash from the windfall.

When it comes to Euromillions, it seems everyone’s a winner.

The mystery over the identity of Ireland’s latest EuroMillions jackpot winners has deepened after it emerged yesterday that the winning ticket was sold in Dublin.

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Now for the small matter of collecting the cash.

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“€88.5 million is far too much — what everyone other then the winner of the Euromillions is saying,” read one the many tweets celebrating the luck of the Irish.

Taoiseach Garret Fitzgerald was at odds with his finance minister over how proceeds from the soon-to-be launched National Lottery should be distributed, cabinet papers from 1986 show.

The new operator of the National Lottery made an operating profit of €7.4m against the background of declining sales.

An Indian man who survived the Dubai plane crash last week has been dubbed the “world’s luckiest man” after he won a $1m lottery just six days later.

Champagne corks were popping in the National Lottery Winners Room in Abbey Street, Dublin today as a lucky Dublin lady celebrated her surprise Lotto win of €117,023.

A Mega Millions lottery jackpot worth an estimated US$540m (€488m) has been won by one lucky ticket-holder in the US.

It was a busy two days at National Lottery Headquarters in Dublin as €615,000 in prize money was claimed by four different players across EuroMillions and National Lottery scratch card games.

The National Lottery has refused to pay out a multi-million Euro jackpot to someone claiming to be the winner.

Someone, somewhere, is holding on to the sole winning Powerball lottery ticket that was sold in New Jersey and is worth an eye-popping US$430 million dollars (€377m).

There will now be two Daily Million draws every day instead of one, the National Lottery has announced.