€4.2m lotto winner at large in Cork

SOMEWHERE in Cork, the owner of a lucky Quickpick ticket is holding onto a €4.2 million fortune.

Speculation has reached fever-pitch on the northside of Cork city as to the identity of the winner, who purchased their ticket at Dunnes Stores, in the Blackpool shopping centre.

The midweek scoop is the biggest win in Cork since the Cunningham family, from Farranree, won €16 million in July 2007 — still the largest jackpot in Irish Lotto history. It was also won with a Quickpick ticket.