Investigation into Lotto rollovers unnecessary, says UCC statistician

UCC's Dr Michael Cronin said that even though the jackpot had rolled over 47 times since the start of June it was not surprising to see a sequence of rollovers

Given that the Lottery was drawn twice a week, it was not surprising to get a sequence of rollovers as has occurred, a UCC statistician has said.

A statistician has said that calls for an investigation into why the National Lottery jackpot has not been won for some time are unfounded and that the number of rollovers made no difference to the odds of winning.

Dr Michael Cronin, who is head of statistics at the School of Mathematical Sciences at University College Cork said that even though the jackpot had rolled over 47 times since the start of June, a phenomenon that had odds of 1,500 to one, it was not surprising to see a sequence of rollovers.