Celebrations at €5.6m winning Lotto ticket

There are celebrations at the shop that sold the €5,612,385 winning lotto ticket in last Wednesday's (June 29) draw.

The Day Today store in Slaney Place, Enniscorthy, Co Wexford sold the winning Normal Play Pick ticket on the day of the draw last Wednesday.

READ: The win follows that of a lucky Cavan person who won the Lotto Plus 1 jackpot last week.

The community centred store in Enniscorthy is owned and operated by two Tipperary friends, Frank Jordan and Kieran Walsh and they were overjoyed to hear the news about one of their customers life-changing win.

One of the owners, Frank Jordan said, “People won’t believe this story but on the very day of the draw, our local National Lottery Rep visited the store and I jokingly told him to send a winning ticket my way! Low and behold, only a couple of hours later, one of our customers has had a truly life-changing win and honestly, we couldn’t be anymore thrilled for them,” he said.

The National Lottery have also confirmed that the winner of Wednesday’s Lotto jackpot worth over €5.6 million has made contact and arrangements are now being made for the prize to be paid.

The Wexford player is the sixth Lotto jackpot winner of 2022 following wins by players in Mayo, Meath,  Dublin (2) and Kilkenny. The Wexford winner is also the 21st National Lottery millionaire of 2022.