'I said to my husband ‘I think we won the Lotto’ and he didn’t even look up from the newspaper'

The Munster woman scooped the €5.3m jackpot but her broadband was out on the night of the draw so she didn't check her ticket.

'I said to my husband ‘I think we won the Lotto’ and he didn’t even look up from the newspaper'

The winner of last Saturday's Lotto jackpot has described how she only learned of the win after a broadband outage.

The Munster woman scooped the €5.3m jackpot but her broadband was out on the night of the draw so she didn't check her ticket.

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