
I really couldn’t believe it when all of our numbers were on the screen in front of me! I was checking and double checking and checking again. Imagine if we had have given up – we certainly wouldn’t be sitting here in the Winners Room, that’s for sure!”ĭescribing the heart-stopping moment they realised they won, one of them said: “I was watching the draw live and ticking our numbers off as they came out. “We decided to keep going with it for the time being and thank goodness we did. There’s a lot of organising that goes into it and we had never won big before so I was thinking to myself, is it really worth it? READ MORE: Hopes hot weather to break Ireland’s cold spell as maps pinpoint date of spectacular U-turnĪ member of the group said: “For a few weeks, I was actually thinking of stopping the syndicate. However they nearly missed out on the life-changing prize as they admitted they were thinking of stopping the syndicate for a few weeks before the draw. They bought their lucky Quick Pick ticket at Tesco in the Longwalk shopping centre in Dundalk. The syndicate from Louth arrived at Lotto HQ this week to collect their €2,418,002 fortune after winning the jackpot on the July 15 draw. Ireland’s latest Lotto winners have told of their incredible twist of fate after nearly missing out on millions by a couple of weeks.
