As the Weather Warms, Kilkenny Becomes the Hotspot for Irish Lottery Winners in 2025

Winners of the massive national and international lottery prizes never fail to make the headlines, and with the technology involved in the system these days, the operators can always tell where the big winners are from. This year, just as the weather was heating up and inviting us all back outside, Co Kilkenny hit the headlines.
Having one major lottery winner from Kilkenny claim their big prize is one thing, but already, Kilkenny has seen two people beat the odds to become significantly richer. The first came at the end of March, with a player leveraging all the modern technological advancements in lottery play to land a multi-million jackpot, as the Irish Independent reports.
A month later, to the day, yet another Kilkenny lotto player scooped a hefty prize by hitting most of the numbers in the draw. This time, the main draw awarded tens of thousands of euros, with five of the six numbers matching as well as the bonus ball. Already, it’s been an auspicious year of lotto in Kilkenny!
Making Use of Lottery Tech to Win Big
The National Lottery and other headline lotto providers across Ireland have worked hard over the years to make the lottery more accessible and convenient for everyone who wants to play. Part of this has been digitising the ticket-buying process. Doing this makes it much easier and more convenient for anyone to buy a lottery ticket, be it a randomised one or one with their lucky numbers. Still, going another step further, the operators have infused additional features to further the convenience and draw of digital play.
For the Co Kilkenny winner of €4,005,581 in the main lotto draw at the end of March, that winning ticket wouldn’t have been landed without the use of those features. They were an online player who had set up their account to automatically enter the draw through Scheduled Play. This way, their account is automatically charged for a pre-set number of tickets and, possibly, with their chosen numbers. The feature proved to be life-changing for that lucky player.
Lottery play overall in Ireland has sought to make use of the digital space as much as possible to create even more far-flung opportunities for players. While Kilkenny has had winners of the Irish Lotto at home, on platforms like Lottoland Ireland, local players can also bet on the likes of the US Powerball as well as the Millionaire lottery. While the Irish Lotto is a big one, larger countries around the world draw from a larger pool of players, making for even bigger jackpots and prizes.
Naturally, betting on the Irish Lotto and EuroJackpot are also available, but putting these more local lottery options next to the likes of MegaMillions with QuickPick options showcases just how vast the offering has become thanks to modern tech. In fact, the Kilkenny winner of €43,686 in April got their ticket from a store via a Quick Pick.
National Lottery Finding Regular Winners
The Kilkenny winner at the end of March was a big story, given the win in excess of €4 million, and yet, it was a headline that many had grown accustomed to. As Beat 102103 details, they were already the fifth big winner of Ireland’s main lotto draw in 2025 to that time, with others coming from Louth, Dublin, Kerry, and Limerick.
Upon learning of the windfall, the main draw winner said that they were convinced that they were “misreading the message on the app” that notified them of the millions now coming their way. The Kilkenny win a month later of over €43,000 was the biggest of that draw but also one of 71,000 on the night where the missed prize was €2.3 million.
As the summer beckoned, it seems that Kilkenny became a hotspot for big-ticket lotto winners in Ireland, but we’ll have to wait and see if the streak will carry into the warmest months of 2025.