NORTHERN Ireland has seen its fair share of lottery winners, with many scooping life-changing sums of money.
Among the biggest winners was north Belfast woman Iris Jeffrey, who won £20.1m in 2004.
Ms Jeffrey had bought her ticket in July of that year, but only realised she had hit the jackpot the following month after hearing an appeal by lottery organisers Camelot.
It saw her become the biggest ever winner of the UK's National Lottery at the time.
In 2013, Margaret Loughrey from Strabane surpassed this by winning £27m in a EuroMillions draw.
Unemployed at the time, she said she bought the lucky ticket on the same day she been to the job market to get an application form for a job with a charity.
Other big winners over the years include former Belfast bus driver Peter Lavery, who won £10.2m in 1996.
He said within days of the win he was lying on a beach in St Lucia.
Belfast woman Mary Hamilton also won a £12.9m EuroMillions jackpot in 2014, while Belfast garage owner Joe Clarke scooped more than £10m in 2013.
IT worker Ryan Magee from Derry also secured £6.4m on EuroMillions in 2008 and Seamus Duffy, also from the city, won £4.5m a year later.
Newry couple Eithne and Colin Bell, who founded the Kevin Bell Repatriation Trust in memory of their son who was killed in New York, also celebrated a £1 million win in 2017.
