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Most honest man in Ireland - Finds winning Lotto ticket and searches for owner.

  • 15-06-2009 9:58am
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    connundrum
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    Wow is all I have to say.
    The man who left a €350,000 winning Lotto ticket behind him in a Drogheda shop has promised to reward the honest shopkeeper who returned it to him yesterday.

    Drogheda native Dermot Finglas (35), who lives at home with his parents, discovered his luck had changed yesterday when, against all the odds, his winning lotto ticket found its way home.

    Although Dermot had left a local shop last Wednesday without the winning piece of paper, honest shopkeeper Tom Heavey put it aside, just in case.

    When it later emerged that the ticket held the winning numbers, Tom released CCTV footage of the man who walked away without it. He was later identified as Dermot Finglas.

    "He won't be stuck, that is for sure," said a stunned Dermot, referring to his new found friend Tom, the guardian of his changing fortunes, as he was presented with the ticket outside his home.

    "It's a wonderful thing. For someone to be so honest in this day and age is shocking. The story should be about him."

    As for Tom, he could have pocketed the winning ticket after his shop assistant rang him to say he had scooped the prize. He had written 'paid for – Tom' on the piece of paper and left it beside the till. Nobody would ever have known.

    "But it was someone else's ticket and someone else's luck," he said yesterday. "I hope he and his family enjoy every penny of it.

    "I shouted after him when he was leaving the shop that he had left the ticket behind but he didn't hear me, he had headphones on, and I ran after him but he was gone.

    "I just put my name on it and (wrote) that it was paid for so it wouldn't be resold and put it beside the till thinking that the man would probably come back for it."

    But Dermot never did. It was only yesterday morning when his father Dermot Snr saw his son in the newspapers on CCTV footage that the gravity of the situation became apparent.

    "I went into him in the bed and I said to him: 'You are all over the papers'," recalled Dermot Snr.

    "As soon as I saw the picture I knew it was him; I couldn't believe it."

    http://www.tribune.ie/news/home-news/article/2009/jun/14/lot-of-euro-lotto-luck-as-mystery-winner-found/

    That is actually unbelievable.
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