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A GROUP OF 20 soldiers from the third infantry battalion in Kilkenny collected a cheque for €452,700 from the National Lottery headquarters in Dublin today.
The army syndicate group won the prize in the Lotto draw on Saturday 27 August, when they matched five numbers and the bonus number to win the biggest prize on offer to date in this category.
Hailing from Kilkenny, Waterford, Cork, Tipperary, Laois and Carlow, the men, aged 23-54, are stationed at Stephens Barracks in Kilkenny.
The group is made up of 18 privates, one corporal and one sergeant. They started playing Lotto together in January 2015.
Speaking today, syndicate spokesperson Daniel McGrath from Cork said: “Our first online ticket purchase in May was a Quick Pick and we decided to keep those same numbers going. Good thing we did.”
‘I couldn’t believe it’
Clive Parsons from Kilkenny spoke of his surprise when he found out about the win.
“I’d an email from the National Lottery saying we’d won but I didn’t read it until the next day as I thought it would just be for a few euro.
“I was out with the family and took a break to look at my emails. I scanned down the page and saw that we’d won a few small prizes on the first two lines and then I saw the big one … I couldn’t believe it.”
The group will split the winnings equally, each taking home €22,635.
“There are a few lads getting married soon and a couple are buying houses so it couldn’t have come at a better time for them.
“Two have newborn babies so the money will give them a good start. We’re all delighted and we’ll have a few drinks together back in Kilkenny today to celebrate and a day off work tomorrow,” McGrath said.
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“Primarily used in farming as a fertiliser”. No, no it isn’t.
@shake n’ break: dead right it isn’t ——Makes me wonder what kind of a bo***x wrote that
@shake n’ break: what would it have been doing on a farm?
@john doe: Don’t ever buy your spuds off those lads John, while they’re putting liquid nitrogen in their tea to cool it down because the kettle boiled too hot, farmers use it to replenish nitrogen in the soil between harvests as it’s probably the single most important element in farming outside of H2O.
@shake n’ break: yes it is.
https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/5-reasons-why-you-should-consider-using-liquid-nitrogen/
@shake n’ break:
The containers in the photo look like AI sperm sample tanks.
@Gavin Cronin:
You fertilise with liquid nitrogen to grow frozen vegetables for the supermarket. Also give it to cows and they make ice cream.
@Gavin Cronin: the stuff in your link is a solution that contains nitrates, like a liquid form of fertiliser. Liquid nitrogen is -200d/C and used to store semen and embryos on farms.
@shake n’ break: As a fertiliser ??
It’s a cold case
@Peter Jo: it’s say whoever lost that stuff thinks you’re a real comedian mate
@Peter Jo: bravo.
@Patrick Agnew: I bet you’re there life and soul of a party.
@Patrick Agnew: I’d say you’re great craic to be out with down the local and have an amazing sense of humour. Lol
My god, they better be careful. That’s stuff would be friesian!
I hope the thieves dip their Mickies in it.
Hope the see you next Tuesday’s get around in a circle and all edge in closer to have a good look at the container just as its being opened.
Put my finger in liquid nitrogen a few years back. It was extremely painful, wouldn’t recommend.
@Crocodylus Pontifex: what inspired you to do that?
@Crocodylus Pontifex: So did i…..THE WIFE
@D Mems: Ice cream was served over a bowl of the stuff. I was after a few glasses of wine, it was bubbling away. Had to try it.
Used as a. Fertiliser? Who writes this garbage?
@Gavin Cronin: Despite the headline that isn’t Liquid Nitrogen. It is a liquid nitrate fertiliser. A COMPLETELY different thing.
@Gavin Cronin: From your link: “Omex material is UAN (50% urea, 25% ammonium and 25% nitrate).”
@sean o’dhubhghaill: gavin is trying to look smart all over this comment section but is looking more like an idiot, the lad obviously skipped science in school!
There is some confusion here. It seems to be an unfortunate name they have given to a convenient liquid fertiliser rich in nitrogen. It’s not liquid nitrogen that you’d have in a lab. Using liquid N2 wouldn’t make much sense as it would evaporate too quickly for nitrogen fixing bacteria to even notice it was there.
@Chloë Johnson: I still think you are confused! That picture is an insulated flask used for storing bull semen in straws which is filled with liquid nitrogen, which used to be the gas nitrogen, which has been distilled from plain old air!
@Martin: using liq N2 for cooling samples makes a lot more sense than as a fertiliser! I was wracking my brains trying to understand why a farm would need it, thanks for clearing it up! But the article (and many comments) still seem to confuse a certain similarly named fertiliser with very very cold N2
@Martin: maybe you went a bit far explaining liquid nitrogen to a chemist though
Dr Evil and his henchmen stole it and he will now demand €1 million dollars in cold hard cash to have them returned mwhahaha
@Michael Patrick Newell: Log off, Michael. Thanks.
@Michael Patrick Newell:
cash will do, he can cool and harden it himself ;)
Don’t open them yokes in the livin van, mikey.
@John Mulligan: Halting site frozen over, Met Office perplexed.
Since when was liquid nitrogen a commonly used fertiliser. Surely they’re for storing straws for AI?
There looking for an over zelous AI man, with loads of cows.
Smoke and mirrors stuff
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