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Waterford workers collect €2.5m lotto cheque after 16 years of playing the same numbers

Not a bad way to start the weekend…

TWELVE STAFF FROM the Bausch & Lomb plant in Waterford collected a cheque for over €2.5 million this afternoon after their Lottery win.

Each member of the workplace syndicate will take home just under €215,000.

The group, who always used the same numbers, made the trip to the National Lottery headquarters this afternoon after playing together for almost 16 years.

They won the jackpot with an €8 ticket bought at the Spar store in Ferrybank in Waterford on Saturday.

Members of the group say they plan to pay off their mortgages, go on holiday and buy new cars.

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Group organiser, Alan Smith, checked the ticket numbers on Saturday night at 10.45pm, using the National Lottery’s new mobile App ticket checker:

“I scanned the ticket, as I do every week, and a message flashed up ‘Congratulations – please contact us!’ I was delighted but didn’t expect that we’d won the whole Lotto jackpot’.

I checked it a couple of times but refused to believe it. I rang the wife who had been up at a hurling match and I asked ‘where are ya – get home fast, we’re after winning the Lotto! Then I started ringing the other lads in the group.

The group range in age from 37 to 50 and have 16 children in total, with another on the way shortly.

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Bausch and Lomb has been operating in Waterford since 1981 and make ranges of contact lenses.

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    Mute Derry Seery
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    Aug 18th 2015, 4:13 PM

    Why not just say Canadian?! Anyway, well done and good luck to all at Brown Bag.

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    Aug 18th 2015, 2:55 PM

    Something an FF member could tell you – there’s money in Brown bags.

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    Mute Stephen Bernard
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    Aug 18th 2015, 5:22 PM

    I can only imagine how boring it must be to hang out with you – moaning about Enda, water charges, corrupt politicians, Merkil, whine, whine, whine.

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    Aug 18th 2015, 3:20 PM

    Seems almost every Irish is being bought up by some crowd from outside Ireland these days.

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    Mute Carol Oates
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    Aug 18th 2015, 3:21 PM

    *that should read “everything Irish”.

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    Mute OU812
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    Aug 18th 2015, 1:58 PM

    How much ?

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    Mute Barbara Geoghegan
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    Aug 19th 2015, 11:12 AM

    Can we not be happy for these hardworking entrepreneurs, who, at a time when working as an animator in Ireland was beyond difficult, they built up their own company, employed 180+ people, were Oscar nominated twice and have now expanded using foreign funding in order to create more employment! Begrudgers trot on! This is a great news story! Congrats Doc, Cathal and all at Brown Bag!

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    Aug 18th 2015, 10:14 PM

    Gotta love Nickelodoan!

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    Mute Paudi Onail
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    Aug 19th 2015, 12:01 AM

    how much of their donkey work is outsourced? like to south america and such for low rates.

    yeah.

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