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Updated 1.10pm
THE NATIONAL LOTTERY has confirmed the winning EuroMillions ticket worth €88,587,275 was sold in Dublin.
The ticket was bought at the Applegreen Motorway Services station on the M1 Northbound in Lusk.
To celebrate the win, the station reduced the cost of petrol and diesel to 88.5 cent per litre for a period earlier today.
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The winner or winners have made contact with the National Lottery. There has been speculation the ticket was bought by a syndicate based in Co Cork.
The win marks the third jackpot-winning ticket sold in Ireland in 12 months.
On 29 January 2016, a ticket worth €66,188,316 was sold at Eason in Fairgreen Shopping Centre, Carlow. On 1 July 2016, a ticket worth €23,845,078 was sold at O’Hanlon’s, Canal House, Station Road, Portarlington, Co Laois – with 22 Dublin Bus drivers scooping the jackpot.
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