Lotto luck running out for holder of €1.6m ticket

TIME is running out for the holder of a €1.6 million Lotto ticket who could miss out on the Christmas of a lifetime.

If the ticket, which was bought in a Dublin newsagents on Tuesday 17 September, is not claimed by next Tuesday, the jackpot will be returned to the prize fund.

"We're praying that the person will find it before the deadline," said Martina Heffernan, owner of Heffernan's newsagents on the Phibsboro Road.