St Patrick's Day Winners

St Patrick's Day 2006 was a winning one for Laura and Charles Ray from Oklahoma when they became the Oklahoma Lottery's first millionaires. They won on a Powerball Power Play game and are in the record books as the winners of the largest single prize in Oklahoma's lottery history. Initially they thought they had won $100,000 but because the game has a Power Play multiplier their win of $1million was a lot more. All profits from the Oklahoma Lottery are used to support improvements and enhancements for educational purposes at all levels from Pre-Kindergarten to higher education.

Also, an as-yet unknown EuroMillions lottery winner who bought their ticket in Cong, Ireland, had not come forward to claim their prize worth Euros828,820 won on the St Patrick's' day draw, March 17. The winning €2 ticket was sold in O'Connor's Spar food shop only hours before the draw and locals are curious as to winner's identity. It is possible that the buyer was a tourist calling in over the celebration weekend, but the win would be the shop's first big win in years after a local man scooped some cash in the National Lottery nearly 15 years ago.