The owner of the shop which sold the €4.4million lottery ticket in Saturday night’s Lotto draw says he hopes the winner is a local player but admitted it could be anyone. We sold this week’s winning 4.4m LOTTO ticket.”Mr Daly said, “We didn’t waste much time after it sunk in to let people know. Speaking on the Lotto jackpot win, Dermot Griffin, CEO of the National Lottery said: “They call tomorrow Blue Monday but there will be no Monday Blues for this lucky winner who won the first Lotto jackpot of the year. Last year we had a total of 12 Lotto jackpot wins so this is a great start to 2018 for our players”. Mr Griffin urged all players who purchased a ticket in the Lifford and Carndonagh regions of Donegal to check their tickets.

Source: The Irish Times January 14, 2018 16:30 UTC