Mayo is second luckiest EuroMillions county

THE National Lottery has revealed Ireland’s luckiest EuroMillion counties in new research that analysed the number of top prize winners since the game was launched in 2004.

Coming in second place is Co. Mayo, which has clocked up 23 EuroMillions top prize winners who have shared over €51 million in prizes. That translates into a top prize winner for every 5,700 people in Mayo.

Ireland’s smallest county, Co. Louth, topped the table with the most EuroMillions winners per head of population.

Not far behind Mayo is Co. Limerick, with one EuroMillions top prize winner in every 5,732 people. This is made up of 34 winners sharing over €134.5 million. Limerick’s performance is buoyed by Delores McNamara’s massive €115 million EuroMillions jackpot win in 2005.

Speaking on the figures, a National Lottery spokesperson said: “One of the questions we frequently get asked here at the National Lottery is which county is the luckiest place to buy a EuroMillions ticket. This is what we sought to find with these statistics.

“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 in Ireland.”