Ballinamore shop sells €50k scratchcard

A Ballinamore shop-owner is celebrating almost as much the winner themselves might after they were informed earlier today, October 1, by National Lottery Headquarters that a scratch card sold in their newsagents shop bagged its buyer €50,000.

Representing a 5,000-1 return on the €10 All Cash Spectacular scratch card, winning card-seller Philip Murphy of Murphy's newsagents in Ballinamore says the shop has become a lucky place at which to do your lottery in recent years.

“We've had five people on Winning Streak, a €100,000 scratch card winner here two years ago, a person who won €25,000 on Telly Bingo last year, and a number of other big winners down through the years.”

He says the shop is now waiting on a major winner in the Euromillions: “Its the next one, its just around the corner”.

The customer, who collected a cheque for the winning sum from National Lottery Headquarters this week wants to remain anonymous, but despite the comparatively costly price of the ticket, Mr Murphy says they're now becoming “very popular” around North Leitrim and West Cavan.

“They obviously saw the pot of the gold at the end of the rainbow in buying it. We're just delighted to be able to say we've sold yet another big winner and we'd just like to extend our warmest congratulations to the winner, whoever and wherever they might be.”