Five million reasons to celebrate for Lotto player

A DUBLIN Lotto player had more than five million reasons to celebrate this Christmas after scooping the jackpot.

The sole winning ticket was bought in Lucan on the day of the draw, earning the purchaser a cool €5,617,764. The main prize had not been won since the December 6 draw, and a surge of interest in the run-up to Christmas made it the biggest jackpot of the year and one of the biggest in the game’s history.

The fact that there was just one winning ticket makes it the third most valuable single ticket bought since the first Lotto draw in 1998.