'Lucky' Kildare shops still don't know if they have sold €66m EuroMillions ticket

Lucky Kildare shops staying tight-lipped if they have sold EuroMillions ticket worth €66m.

Jordan's Centra in Newbridge and Malone's in Kildare town have both sold tickets for multi-million Lotto jackpots in the past.

However it appears individual shops won't know if one of their customers is a multi-millionaire unless the National Lottery officially informs them tomorrow.

A spokesman for Jordan's Centra in Curragh Grange, which sold a €10m Lotto jackpot ticket a year ago said staff are still in the dark.

He said: "Nobody knows yet. Only the National Lottery and the actual winner know where the ticket was sold."

A worker in Malone's in Kildare town said nobody had heard yet if the ticket was sold there.

She added: "Somebody said it was in Kilmore Quay in Wexford but nobody's sure."

In 2012, a member of the Macari family ran a fish and chip shop on the opposite side of the street, won a €11,526,001 jackpot.

The shop has also sold a €25,000 All Cash platinum scratchcard after a customer spent just €10.

L Malone's is believed to be the oldest in the country and marked its 150th anniversary in 2014.

Last February Jordan's Centra offered free tea and coffee to all its customers to celebrate the massive €10m win.

The numbers drawn for the €10,230,560 jackpot were 9,10,18,20,24,26 and the bonus was 35.

This is the third highest amount ever won by an Irish person in the EuroMillions.

The other winner is from France.

Ireland's highest ever jackpot wins:

2005: €115m won by Dolores McNamara from Limerick 2013: €94m won on a ticket bought in Beaumont in Dublin 2016: €66m scooped by winner of latest Euromillions half-jackpot 2009: €29m won on a ticket bought in Dublin 2014: €15m won by a family with a ticket bought in Castlebar, Co Mayo 2008: €15m won with a ticket bought in Carrick-on-Suir, Co Tipperary 2013:€13m won by a young man whose ticket was bought in Ardkeen, Waterford.