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Ireland's smallest county has the most big EuroMillions winners

Jonathan Duane
Jonathan Duane

12:29 4 Jul 2019


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The National Lottery has revealed which county you're most likely to win big in the EuroMillions.

In the past 15 years, 25 people in Louth have won almost €7 million.

That works out as one in 5,000 people in the "wee county" nabbing a top prize.

Mayo is a close second, with 23 people sharing €51 million worth of prizes - or one every 5,700 people.

The game was launched in 2004 and the research is based on the number of winner per head of population.

A National Lottery spokesperson says they're frequently asked what county is the luckiest.

This is what they sought to find with these statistics.

They said "using data from the 2016 Census combined with our own winner’s information we were able to crunch the numbers to confirm that Co. Louth is the luckiest EuroMillions County”.

Limerick is number three on the list, helped massively by Dolores McNamara’s €115 million jackpot in 2005.

Dublin comes in at number four, with one winner per 6,000 people in the capital.

The most recent win there was the Naul Family Syndicate which pocketed Ireland’s record EuroMillions haul of €175 million in February this year.

The full research is below.

 

Credit: National Lottery

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