Galway Bay fm newsroom - A winning Lotto ticket with a half a million euro prize has been sold in Gort.
News & Views newsagent at Bridge Street in Gort sold a winning Lotto Plus One quick pick ticket yesterday.
Owner of News & Views Emer O'Callaghan says this is the sixth time they have sold a winning ticket totalling over one and a half million euros in prize money.
In 2006 a €350,000 winning ticket was bought there and in 1992 they sold an overall winner of the national lottery.
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The owner of the ticket has not been identified at this point.
Emer O'Callaghan says there is a lot of excitement in the area about the news.