Irish Lotto

Here at Online-Lotto we will dig out all of the facts and figures about the Irish Lottery, keeping you up-to-date with all the latest news, results, winners, rollovers and big jackpot wins.

The Irish Lottery originally started selling lottery scratch cards but since 1988 the Irish Lottery Lotto draw has been taking place. Back then you used to have to choose six balls from 1 to 36 for a chance to win a share of the £250,000 guaranteed jackpot for matching all six numbers.

Playing the Irish Lottery

However since then it has received a massive €6 million rebrand and has had three changes to the play format with today’s Irish Lottery requiring you to pick six numbers between 1 and 45 and you must match all six to win a share of the jackpot. The draws for the Irish Lottery take place every Wednesday and Saturday evening at 8pm GMT and to date, the biggest Irish Lottery jackpot was nearly €19 million and was won in June ’08.

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Winning the Irish Lottery

To be a winner of the Irish Lottery jackpot you must have matched all six numbers drawn with the numbers on your ticket. You can also win prizes if you match 5 main numbers plus the bonus number, 5 main numbers, 4 main numbers plus the bonus number, 4 main numbers, 3 main numbers plus the bonus number or 3 of the main numbers.

The odds of winning the Irish Lottery jackpot are 1 in 8,145,060, the odds of matching 5 numbers plus the bonus number are 1 in 1,357,510, the odds of matching 5 numbers are 1 in 35,724, the odds of matching 4 numbers plus the bonus number are 1 in 14,290, the odds of matching 4 numbers are 1 in 772, the odds of matching 3 numbers plus the bonus number are 1 in 579 and the odds of matching 3 numbers are 1 in 48. At €3 per ticket for two lines of six numbers and two chances to win the Irish Lottery is one of the world’s most expensive lotteries to enter but this is countered by lower than normal odds of winning prizes.

Besides the main online Lotto draw there are many other variations of the Irish Lottery including; Monday Million, EuroMillions, Millionaire Raffle, Telly Bingo, Scratch Cards plus the Lotto family of games, Lotto Plus 1, Lotto Plus 2 and Lotto 5-4-3-2-1.

The Irish Lottery is operated and managed by the An Post National Lottery Company, a subsidiary of Ireland’s postal service provider An Post, on behalf of the Irish Minister for Finance. The Irish Lottery itself is governed and regulated by the Irish Government through The National Lottery Act, 1986.

Did you know that you can buy tickets to play the Irish Lottery simply and easily from there sat at your computer by following the Irish Lottery banner above. Well you can so if you feel you have the luck of the Irish then maybe you should try your luck playing one of the longest running and best loved national lotteries around.