Small town with a lotta Lotto luck

A town in Donegal was dubbed one of Ireland’s luckiest tonight after two winning Lotto jackpot tickets were sold there on the same day.

Two lucky punters were celebrating after scooping over 1m euro each in the midweek draw – after buying tickets within hours of each other in shops just yards apart.

Two of the three winning tickets of Wednesday’s €3.04m jackpot were sold in Buncrana, a town with a population of just over 5,000 people, on the day before the draw.

One was sold in the Post Office on Upper Main Street, while the other was sold in a supermarket on the Cockhill Road.

Stephen Bradley, 25, from Buncrana, said: “I can’t believe it, it’s amazing.

“The thought that two millionaires are walking around the town is incredible.

“There’s plenty of rumours but no-one seems to know for certain who the winners are yet.”

The third winners of the jackpot prize, a married couple from Dublin, have already collected their cheque for €1,016,069.

The couple, who did not wish to be named, bought their ticket in Newsfare on the North Circular Road in Phibsboro just before the draw took place.

“At 7.30pm I realised that I had forgotten to play my weekly Lotto,” the man said.

“I rushed into Spar in Phibsboro and managed to play my numbers just in time before the terminal closed down for the draw.”