People in the Abbeyleix area have been asked to check their Lotto tickets after a shop sold a winning ticket tonight.
Supervalu in Abbeyleix sold a ticket with six matching numbers and the bonus in tonight’s draw.
This is the Lotto Plus 2 draw where the top prize of €250,000 has been won.
The shop posted the news on their Facebook page this evening and speculation as to who the winning ticket holder has mounted.
Laois went through a run of winning tickets last year too.
In June 2017 it emerged that a winning EuroMillions ticket worth half a million euro spent seven weeks being driven around in a car before the owners realised that they had won.
A farming couple from the Midlands made the discovery while searching for loose change to pay a parking metre.
The pair purchased the ticket for the April 18 2017 EuroMillions draw at the Daybreak service station at the the Gandon Inn in Emo.
In September last year, it also emerged that grandmother from Abbeyleix had come forward to claim the €250,000 Lotto Plus prize that she won over the weekend.
The woman, who wishes to remain anonymous, bought the ticket as a quickpick from Clelands Supermarket in Abbeyleix.
She only found out about the big win after her son read about the sum being won by a Laois person on Facebook.
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