€500,000 EuroMillions ticket sold in Cork village

Ken Ross, owner of Ross’s Centra store in Watergrasshill in north east Cork has urged all of his customers to check their EuroMillions tickets after his store was confirmed as the winning location for Tuesday night’s €500,000 Euromillions Plus top prize win.

Residents of Watergrasshill, in north east Cork are being urged to check their EuroMillions tickets today after one lucky ticketholder won the €500,000 EuroMillions Plus top prize in Tuesday night’s draw. 

The winning Quick Pick ticket was sold on Tuesday at Ross’s Centra store in the centre of Watergrasshill village.

It was one of 46,000 prizes won on tickets sold in Ireland.

The EuroMillions jackpot was worth almost €68m.

Ken Ross, owner of the Ross’s Centra store in Watergrasshill for the past 16 years, said that his first big lottery win was well worth the wait. 

Mr Ross said he was happy to see one of his "deserving" customers picking up a life-altering €500,000 prize.

A player in Cork has won tonight’s #EuroMillions Plus top prize of €500,000! 💫#ItCouldBeYou pic.twitter.com/tXnkh244dZ

— The Irish National Lottery (@NationalLottery) January 19, 2021

He said: “This is some way for one of our customers to beat the January blues! 

It’s a difficult time of year at the best of times anyway so this win will give the entire community a lovely little lift today knowing that one of them is a half million euro richer after Tuesday’s EuroMillions draw. 

"Of course, with the travel restrictions in place, we are seeing mostly locals in the store at the moment but we also have quite a number of frontline workers stopping in as they come and go from work. 

"Whoever is the lucky winner is, we know for sure that they are most deserving of the win, there will be no doubt about that,” he added.

It is the latest in a series of big wins for Irish players in the EuroMillions, with a lucky player in Clare winning €500,000 just three weeks ago.

Last July, a ticket sold in Ireland won the grand prize of some €49.5m.