The National Lottery have created a massive 102 brand new millionaires since 2020 with over 1,100 players sharing over €470 million alone in high tier prizes across all draw-based games.
This is according to the National Lottery ‘high tier prizes report’ which captures all draw based game prize wins (Lotto, EuroMillions, Daily Million, Telly Bingo & Millionaire Raffle) in excess of €15,000 (€10,000 for online wins) from January 2020 until January 2023.
In 2021, approximately 90% of all revenue generated from sales of National Lottery games was returned to communities in the shape of prizes (56%), funding Good Causes (29%) and commission to retailers (5%) all over Ireland.
Since 2020, Dublin has unsurprisingly topped the charts for National Lottery wins with over €68 million paid out to 275 players, 22 of which won prizes in excess of €1 million.
In the last three years, ten separate millionaires were made in Co. Cork while Galway and Mayo have had six new millionaires each. Mayo’s biggest winners includes the record-breaking Lotto jackpot win of €19.06 million which was claimed by a Mayo family syndicate in January 2021.
Online players continued to win big for the past three years also with 194 winners claiming over €95 million in high tier prizes. Included in these winners were 17 brand new millionaires, the biggest of which was a Dublin player who scooped a EuroMillions jackpot worth €49.5 million in July 2020.
Already in 2023, a total of four brand new millionaires have been made in the Lotto game alone with the biggest win of the year in Foynes, Co. Limerick which seen a Lotto jackpot prize worth €11.1 million claimed by a syndicate. There was no winner of last Saturday’s (11th February) Lotto jackpot worth over €3.9 million which means that Wednesday’s jackpot is heading for a life-changing €4.5 million.
National Lottery High Tier Winner Data (Draw Based Games): 2020 – 2023*
| County | No. High tier winners | Total value of high tier prizes | No. Millionaires (2020-2023) |
| Carlow | 13 | €3,342,040 | 1 |
| Cavan | 16 | €3,317,016 | 0 |
| Clare | 21 | €5,646,418 | 1 |
| Cork | 98 | €36,230,885 | 10 |
| Donegal | 28 | €6,624,163 | 2 |
| Dublin | 275 | €68,682,085 | 22 |
| Galway | 53 | €21,481,878 | 6 |
| Kerry | 43 | €18,510,242 | 5 |
| Kildare | 32 | €5,172,544 | 1 |
| Kilkenny | 26 | €28,569,745 | 3 |
| Laois | 18 | €3,585,716 | 2 |
| Leitrim | 5 | €254,402 | 0 |
| Limerick | 30 | €17,060,870 | 4 |
| Longford | 15 | €932,517 | 0 |
| Louth | 21 | €3,552,955 | 2 |
| Mayo | 55 | €47,947,886 | 6 |
| Meath | 47 | €21,449,435 | 5 |
| Monaghan | 7 | €1,341,059 | 1 |
| Offaly | 25 | €1,591,296 | 0 |
| Online (National Lottery App/www.lottery.ie) | 194 | €95,520,429 | 17 |
| Roscommon | 15 | €2,783,731 | 1 |
| Sligo | 10 | €2,950,005 | 2 |
| Tipperary | 23 | €32,405,169 | 1 |
| Waterford | 27 | €5,525,768 | 3 |
| Westmeath | 25 | €10,963,901 | 3 |
| Wexford | 34 | €13,439,281 | 4 |
| Wicklow | 27 | €1,1887,591 | 0 |
* Statistics compiled from National Lottery prize claims data from draw based games from 1st January 2020 – 26th January 2023. High tier prizes are defined as prizes in excess of €15,000 (€10,000 for online wins). All prize claims data correct as of 26th January 2023.
** National Lottery draw based games include: Lotto, EuroMillions, Daily Million, Millionaire Raffle & Telly Bingo.
Nearly 30 cent in every €1 spent on all National Lottery games goes back to Good Causes in the areas of sport, youth, health, welfare, education, arts, heritage, and the Irish Language. In total more than €6 Billion has been raised for Good Causes since the National Lottery was established 35 years ago. In 2021 alone, €304 million was raised for local Good Causes in communities across Ireland.
