Easter Saturday’s Lotto Jackpot heading for a cracking €3 million

Ireland is in the grip of Easter lottery fever with this Saturday’s Lotto jackpot on course to hit an eggs-citing €3 million.

So far this year, a whopping €42.7 million has been won in prizes with six new Lotto millionaires sharing over €22 million. The biggest jackpot winner in 2019 was a Dublin family syndicate who shared a €10.2 million jackpot, one of the highest Lotto wins for almost two years.

Ahead of Saturday night’s egg-straordinary €3 million (est) Lotto draw, the National Lottery has also confirmed that the Lotto Match 5 + Bonus prize pool which has been rolling since Saturday 23rd March is set to exceed €400,000.

Ahead of Saturday night’s €3 million Lotto jackpot (est), National Lottery Chief Executive, Dermot Griffin, said: “There would be no better way to celebrate the Easter bank holiday weekend than for a lucky player to scoop the €3 million jackpot on offer. And it’s not just our jackpot which is rolling – our Lotto Match 5 + Bonus prize pool is now set to top €400,000 which would make it a memorable Easter should one of our players scoop the prize.”

“2019 has been an incredible year for our Lotto players so far. We have already made six brand new millionaires through our Lotto and Lotto Plus games and we hope to welcome even more big winners into our famous winners’ room following the Easter weekend,” he added.

The 6 Lotto millionaires in 2019 to date were:

February 9: €1 million – Lotto Plus 1: Centra, Newcastle West, Co. Limerick
February 23: €10.2 million – Lotto: Spar, Upper O’Connell Street, Dublin 1
March 2: €2.4 million – Lotto: Maxol, Termonfeckin, Co. Louth
March 23: €1 million – Lotto Plus 1: Tesco, Rush, Co. Dublin
March 30: €1 million – Lotto Plus 1: Raphoe Newsagents, Raphoe, Donegal
April 10: €6.4 million – Lotto: Online/ lottery.ie

Play Lotto in store, on the National Lottery App or online by 7:45pm by Saturday evening for your chance to win.

Almost 30 cent in every euro spent on National Lottery games goes back to Good Causes in the areas of sport, health, arts, culture, heritage, youth, community and the Irish language. Last year alone over €227 million was raised – the equivalent of €620,000 a day.