Co Armagh couple scoop over £114m in Euromillions jackpot
Last updated 3rd Jan 2019
A lucky couple from County Armagh have won over £114 million pounds in the Euromillions draw.
The pair scooped the incredible £114,969,775.70 jackpot from the New Year’s Day EuroMillions draw.
It's a pretty perfect start to the New Year, becoming The National Lottery’s fourth largest ever winners.
The winners will be revealed on Friday at the Culloden Estate.
The winning numbers were 01, 08, 11, 25, 28, with Lucky Stars 04 and 06.
In the New Year's Day draw 10 other players took home #1 million in prize money each.
The winning main EuroMillions numbers were 01, 08, 11, 25, 28 and the winning EuroMillions Lucky Star numbers were 04 and 06.
The New Year's Day win follows a series of high-profile lottery prizes in recent years.
In July 2011, Colin and Chris Weir, from Ayrshire, Scotland, became the biggest lottery winners in the UK, and across Europe, when they scooped more than £161 million.
Adrian and Gillian Bayford, from Suffolk, took home more than £148 million in August 2012, while the biggest prize awarded in the country in 2018 was £121 million, handed to an anonymous winner in April.
And last November, builder Andrew Clark, 51, from Boston, Lincolnshire, discovered he had won £76 million, six weeks after the draw.
He said he stockpiled tickets in his van, only checking them every three months.