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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.
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.
Bausch and Lomb has been operating in Waterford since 1981 and make ranges of contact lenses.
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. Enjoy the cash guys…
At last some good news for the Waterford area. Congrats to everyone. I hope it brings you all good luck.
The good luck has already arrived. Now lets hope it brings good sense in how its used, and that good fortune and happiness don’t get confused.
Awesome !
Nice to see it go to a few people and improve a few lives. Handy amount to get rid of mortgage pressures etc
Congratulations to u all. Good health & happiness.
Great result.
Enjoy the cash guys
Savage stuff. Congrats to them.
Will my day ever come…
Throw me a score if it does.
Good on them. May it bring them years of happiness
Any of the Journal readers ever win the lotto? If so, how did it change your life, for example friends and family
Delighted for you all. Enjoy it.
It came at the end but I was happy to see so many positive comments in a row to find one eejit comment in the negative. Well done the group, wear well…
Congratulations lads. Fair play to yae
Where’s the session?
Fair Play enjoy it folks
Fantastic news! Delighted for you!
I hope it brings each of them some good and happiness.
Fair play, they’ll have an orgy to celebrate
I believe one of the guys took redundancy last year and paid over 500 to stay in until July this year. Big call at the time I’d say, delighted for him it paid off
Running a syndicate since August 2005 and still no win…
Some day !
Not much by todays standards
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