What’s luck got to do with it? Ireland’s ‘luckiest’ town put to the test

A NEWSAGENT in Skibbereen that sold five of the 10 Jackpot-winning Lotto tickets bought in the Co Cork town has dismissed a scientific study that found luck had nothing to do with it.

A British expert on the psychology of luck found that, although Lotto tickets bought in Skibbereen were slightly more successful than those bought in Dublin, the difference was very small and not statistically significant.

“Scientists can look at a situation any way they like. I think it is down to luck that a shop has five jackpots,” said Pierce Hickey Jnr, manager of Pierce Hickey’s Newsagents.