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AS EARLY CHRISTMAS presents go, this one was a good one.
Seventeen nurses from Wexford General Hospital have shared a Lotto jackpot of €2.8 million between them, picking up their cheque at the National Lottery offices in Dublin this morning.
Each of the women in the syndicate will take home €170,394, just eight days before Christmas.
The syndicate has been running for sixteen years and was formed by a group of nurses in the coronary care unit at the hospital. Over the course of sixteen years, eleven of the group retired while six still work at the hospital spread across various departments.
One of the nurses, Johanna Mary Doyle, was watching the draw with her husband last Wednesday.
“My husband always writes the numbers down and then passes them to me,” she said today.
I saw the first three numbers were ours, and then the next three. I thought he was playing a joke, I couldn’t believe it.
The reaction was similar from the other members of the group.
I started calling the girls. ‘You’re codding me, you’re pulling my leg,’ they were saying. I was up to three in the morning that night.
The €64 winning ticket was purchased in Enniscorthy in Wexford.
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Try tell that to the people of Skibbereen!
They will ya
@Pat Boyce: It’s gas, even without your profile picture I could tell you were from Limerick like myself based on those three words :) Only place in the world where ” I will ya” means 100% no.
@Denis Ryan: except for cork, the origin of I will ya.
@Biscuits Patinkin: https://studyireland.ie/2019/01/23/irish-slang-words/
@Denis Ryan: Dunno where it originated but it was definitely Cork slang when I was growing up. Quite a while ago now.
@John Considine: You could be right John, I spent a couple of years living on the north side of Cork. Still think I’ve heard it alot more in Limerick.
@Denis Ryan: You did ya
Just seen Shane Ross on the bus to skibbereen..
Why?
Celebrations? Down with that sort of thing.
Pretty good way of advertising to keep it low key.
Skibbereen, on top of the world with Olympic medals, can keep calm and carry on. Can the rest of us?
They’ve already repainted the post boxes gold in their honour!
Fintan is the head off a young Matt damon
What possessed Mr. Donovan to grow that awful beard .He looks like he has been stranded on a deserted island for an age without a razor
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