Double celebrations as shop sells €11m Lotto winner — and not for the first time

The €11m Lotto ticket seller Noel McGowan, who is celebrating his third jackpot sales win, has a special celebration of his own this year.

His granduncle married into the main store in the Leitrim village of Kinlough exactly 100 years ago in 1916.

Noel, who collects a special €15,000 cash prize for the weekend’s winning sale, said it came in time for his own party, which he has yet to organise, celebrating his family’s centenary ownership of the Spar shop, which employs 20.