Residents of Ballyhaise village in Co Cavan are today being urged to check their tickets after Friday night’s EuroMillions draw produced a EuroMillions Plus top prize winner of €500,000. The winning Quick Pick ticket was bought yesterday at Lees Gala Store in Ballyhaise, Co Cavan which is situated 11kms from the Northern Ireland border. Dermot Lee, the delighted owner of the winning Lees Gala store, is confident that the life-changing €500,000 prize has been scooped by a local. “This half a million euro prize will be life changing to somebody in the Ballyhaise community, it’s an incredible sum to win for our village," he said. There were two Cavan top prize winners of the National Lottery Millionaire raffle scooping prizes of €250,000 and €100,000 each while there was also another Lotto Match 5 + Bonus winner of €112,000 from Cavan Town on Wednesday 27th December.

Source: Evening echo January 20, 2018 14:15 UTC