Man scoops €6.6million just after remembering to top up his Lotto online account

A man who only recently started playing online Lotto is after scooping  €6.6 million.

The Munster man remembered to top up his National Lottery online account just 30 minutes before he scooped a life-changing €6.6 million on last Saturday’s draw.

The man, who claimed the life-changing prize as part of a small family syndicate, was still pinching himself in disbelief when he called to the National Lottery Winner’s Room today to claim his massive prize.

This was the sixth Lotto jackpot online win since the National Lottery launched online play in 2009 bringing the total won on online jackpots to €27,252,015. And so far this year, online National Lottery players have won almost €29 million in prizes.

In the Winners Room today the lucky winner said: “I only recently began playing Lotto online as I was always forgetting to get my ticket in the shops. I opened the National Lottery App just half an hour before Saturday’s Lotto Draw and saw that there was only €3 in my account so I topped up, selected a Quick Pick and thought nothing else of it”.

The winner said he read on Sunday that an online player had won the Lotto but he didn’t think to check his numbers on the app until later on Sunday evening.

He said: “You never actually think it’s going to be you. I’m staring at this cheque with all these zeroes on it and I still cannot believe it. I checked my numbers when I saw the email come through and even at that stage I thought it would only be a couple of euros! We are going to take our time over the next few weeks and try to process this in our own heads. We are going to have a great Christmas, as normal with our family and then we’ll clear the mortgage and bills in the New Year. After that, we’ll just see how we go!”