Rte on the trail of the euro million winner.......

molly09

Why will they not just leave the person alone, if I won I would certainly not been wanting to go on national tv.

It's lovely news that it was won in Ireland but I am sure it can bring unwanted attention.

FloatingVoter

molly09 wrote: »

Why will they not just leave the person alone, if I won I would certainly not been wanting to go on national tv.

It's lovely news that it was won in Ireland but I am sure it can bring unwanted attention.

Crying shame. Can I borrow a million ?. 'tis for a good cause.

Candy_Girl

Do you have to go public if you win the Euro millions?

dxhound2005

molly09 wrote: »

Why will they not just leave the person alone, if I won I would certainly not been wanting to go on national tv.

It's lovely news that it was won in Ireland but I am sure it can bring unwanted attention.

If the person want to remain anonymous they can.

FloatingVoter

Candy_Girl wrote: »

Do you have to go public if you win the Euro millions?

No...the Beaumont winner of the 95 mil last year didn't. In a country this size, it would be advisable to get out fast though.

Stheno

Candy_Girl wrote: »

Do you have to go public if you win the Euro millions?

No but the lottery love it if you volunteer

Ghekko

How annoying was that! They first say the person wishes to stay anonymous and next breath introduce the reporter who is on the trail of the poor (rich) sod. They should have left it a couple of weeks to make contact just to piss RTE and the lotto off!

leave the winner alone.

jaysus, its their business.
what they won and what they did with it.

good luck to them, hope they have a great life!:D

Candy_Girl

When I win I'll keep in on the quite so...look at that lady in Limerick who won, she and her family were never out of the papers for all the wrong reasons.

smash

Good to see the license fee going towards privacy invasion and the destruction people's lives.

Blind Faith

I wouldn't give a ****e who knew if I won that much . . . Id just be laughing all the way to me yacht on the med.

Banjo String

Fairplay to them.

The jammy cnut / cnuts.

Donald73

They'll never find me...I mean find out who it is.

Jaysus wish Pedro would hurry up with the champagne cocktails.

dundalkfc10

Ghekko wrote: »

How annoying was that! They first say the person wishes to stay anonymous and next breath introduce the reporter who is on the trail of the poor (rich) sod. They should have left it a couple of weeks to make contact just to piss RTE and the lotto off!

They should go to TnaG and **** RTE

Birneybau

They'll never find me you poverty stricken scum.

porsche959

Seems unethical. Surely the lottery would not be happy with this?

doolox

...to be hunting down the winner of the 80million. They would not have a minutes peace if some of the scumbags and scrotes on this island knew their identity. They'll probably have to hire a private army to stay safe from now on.

porsche959

smash wrote: »

Good to see the license fee going towards privacy invasion and the destruction people's lives.

The winner has the funds to sue the ass off them.

I'd not saying they should. I'm just, you know, throwing it out there.

Calibos

I have the benefit of buying the ticket from myself every draw. This means I have plausible deniability should I be accosted by the meeja upon entering or exiting Lotto HQ on Abbey Street with a huge grin on my face.

I can pull out my €25,000 winning ticket sellers commission cheque from one pocket to explain my huge grin, while not letting on that I have a multi million euro cheque in the other pocket.

smash

porsche959 wrote: »

The winner has the funds to sue the ass off them.

I'd not saying they should. I'm just, you know, throwing it out there.

Won't matter when your life is fcuked because everyone will want a piece of you. 86.7million is a lot of money to try and hide. Rte will just make it worse. They might as well make an excuse, say bye to their friends and family now and move abroad.

If I'd won, id leave it as late as possible to claim and then act like nothing had changed for a good while before "getting a job abroad".

MadYaker

If I won it would be go to lotto HQ and sort everything out, straight to airport, fly to london/new york, check into hotel and then spend a few days deciding what to do.

Tail Docker

smash wrote: »

Won't matter when your life is fcuked because everyone will want a piece of you. 86.7million is a lot of money to try and hide. Rte will just make it worse. They might as well make an excuse, say bye to their friends and family now and move abroad.

If I'd won, id leave it as late as possible to claim and then act like nothing had changed for a good while before "getting a job abroad".

I have a Lithuanian mate who was incredulous at this today - he reckoned there, you'd need machine guns to keep the vampires from latching onto you, you'd be "taxed" to the hilt by the boyos.

FloatingVoter

I'd imagine the winner has been and gone from the lottery office. The Donegal syndicate that won last week were popping champagne and partying on the news at 6. It would be very easy for a non-descript Dub to stroll in behind them and sort out some business upstairs.

Candy_Girl

Candy_Girl wrote: »

Do you have to go public if you win the Euro millions?

I don't know how true it is but I was told before by someone who won that if you agree to go public about it, let them take all the pictures and plaster your mug all over the place that you get a bit of extra money.

Hooked

Candy_Girl wrote: »

When I win I'll keep in on the quite so...look at that lady in Limerick who won, she and her family were never out of the papers for all the wrong reasons.

This.

While Dolores's extended family had their troubles... And a few criminal connections, the woman herself was a decent, hardworking mother of 6. I went to school with her eldest, my brothers with a daughter the youngest son.

The family home lies empty. The media hounded them... All because the poor woman handed her ticket to a local barman to check... You know, in case she had a number or two.

The rest is history.

I'd stay well clear of waving my winning ticket around the place. My family would be tormented to their graves!

Fück the media.

foggy_lad

molly09 wrote: »

Why will they not just leave the person alone, if I won I would certainly not been wanting to go on national tv.

It's lovely news that it was won in Ireland but I am sure it can bring unwanted attention.

I certainly don't want to be on the telly at all and they can keep their offer of a tour of the RTE studios, Im staying anonomouse.

couple of euro for a hostel bud?

Wibbs

doolox wrote: »

Journalistic irresponsibility ...to be hunting down the winner of the 80million

Well to be fair D, what would you expect from a pig but a grunt?

As far as I'm concerned - and history and current experience would back this up - yes a minority of journalists are damned good and hold up a mirror to society and are needed - but the vast majority of the fifth estate are bottom feeding scum. Especially in this island and ironic given our exalted history of great literature.

For the most part they're failed "writers" and hacks, doomed to feed on society by going through the bins of their betters, while bleating about the "common good". Yea as if some starlets tits and cellulite or "lifestyle" are newsworthy, or worse that some adult trapped adolescent's "opinions" are worth the ink.

GTFO you sad narcissistic twats and fcuk off to Twatter where the rest of your ilk find their true home. Or maybe go on the ground in Iraq or wherever and actually report the news? Unlikely for the vast majority of arts degree dropouts with connections from mummy and daddy.

And for the rest of us? Stop feeding these worthless bastards oxygen. We get the press we buy.

krudler

If RTE does expose who they are I hope they get sued into oblivion

porsche959

Wibbs wrote: »

Well to be fair D, what would you expect from a pig but a grunt?

As far as I'm concerned - and history and current experience would back this up - yes a minority of journalists are damned good and hold up a mirror to society and are needed - but the vast majority of the fifth estate are bottom feeding scum. Especially in this island and ironic given our exalted history of great literature.

For the most part they're failed "writers" and hacks, doomed to feed on society by going through the bins of their betters, while bleating about the "common good". Yea as if some starlets tits and cellulite or "lifestyle" are newsworthy, or worse that some adult trapped adolescent's "opinions" are worth the ink.

GTFO you sad narcissistic twats and fcuk off to Twatter where the rest of your ilk find their true home. Or maybe go on the ground in Iraq or wherever and actually report the news? Unlikely for the vast majority of arts degree dropouts with connections from mummy and daddy.

And for the rest of us? Stop feeding these worthless bastards oxygen. We get the press we buy.

Much as I largely agree with this, there are some decent and courageous Irish journalists, you just have to look for them.

Seeing as you mentioned Twitter, one, Mary Fitzgerald, has an active twitter account from which she posts regular despatches from the ground in troubled Libya.

https://twitter.com/MaryFitzger

Cee-Jay-Cee

If it were me who won, I'd pay a few 'shady' blokes to beat the lining out of any journalist (and I use the term journalist in the loosest of terms)that comes even remotely near me.

RTE can't expose the winner of they wish to remain anonymous, the winner could sue them for it but it's all pie in the sky as RTE journalists couldn't find their arse in a mirror let alone a person who doesn't wish to be found.

Duggy747

I'd use my winnings to have people in RTÉ killed.

EazyD

Duggy747 wrote: »

I'd use my winnings to have people in RTÉ killed.

Or just nuke it from orbit to be certain

AnonoBoy

Deleted User wrote: »

I don't know how true it is but I was told before by someone who won that if you agree to go public about it, let them take all the pictures and plaster your mug all over the place that you get a bit of extra money.

I think it's actually that you can pay a bit of your winnings to remain anonymous rather than get extra for doing the publicity.

But it amounts to the same thing in the end I found.

Yours sincerely,

AnonoBoy.

porsche959

AnonoBoy wrote: »

I think it's actually that you can pay a bit of your winnings to remain anonymous rather than get extra for doing the publicity.

Not true, according to what I was told.

AnonoBoy

I just watched the RTE report on it there.

All I got from it was "the winner has made contact with the lottery" and "the ticket was sold in Dublin".

Did I miss a report or something? It was hardly the massive invasion of privacy that I was expecting from reading this thread.

"Oh no! They know I'm in Dublin!"

Very disappointing to be honest lads - ye got my hopes up for nuthin'

AnonoBoy

porsche959 wrote: »

Not true, according to what I was told.

I knew my trap would work!

How much did you win? Can I borrow a tenner?

AnonoBoy

Was there an update on it since the 9 news last night because all the "invasion of privacy" that was mentioned on this thread led me to believe that they did more than just that report which stated absolutely nothing that could be seen as invasion of privacy at all?

F1ngers

Birneybau wrote: »

They'll never find me you poverty stricken scum.

Please be true, please be true...:D

xalot

Deleted User wrote: »

I don't know how true it is but I was told before by someone who won that if you agree to go public about it, let them take all the pictures and plaster your mug all over the place that you get a bit of extra money.

That's not true, a family member won the plus one prize and went public and didn't get anything extra for it - except for very nice lotto champagne glasses!

AnonoBoy

xalot wrote: »

That's not true, a family member won the plus one prize and went public and didn't get anything extra for it - except for very nice lotto champagne glasses!

I don't understand why anyone would go public then if there's no financial incentive.

Donkey Oaty

AnonoBoy wrote: »

I don't understand why anyone would go public then if there's no financial incentive.

The only real reason to do it is to pre-empt somebody else going public on your behalf. You'll get the media to report it on your terms, at least for a while.

xalot

Neither do I but they'd already told everyone in the area they lived so they might as well go public then!

In fairness it was lovely to see such good will toward them from the people in the small town they are from.

o1s1n

xalot wrote: »

In fairness it was lovely to see such good will toward them from the people in the small town they are from.

Everyone looking for a cut :pac:

The_Valeyard

molly09 wrote: »

Why will they not just leave the person alone, if I won I would certainly not been wanting to go on national tv.

It's lovely news that it was won in Ireland but I am sure it can bring unwanted attention.

It was you!!!!!

RobertKK

I would stay anonymous, that amount of money is also a security risk to the person given some criminal could view it as an opportunity to kidnap a loved one for a large sum of money.

It is rather stupid to go public. and the people who do it are either attention seekers, not use to dealing with money or simply fail to see how they are advertising themselves to people one would rather not advertise themselves to.

AnonoBoy

I still fail to see how anyone thinks RTE are "on the trail" of the winner.

RobertKK

AnonoBoy wrote: »

I still fail to see how anyone thinks RTE are "on the trail" of the winner.

Knowing how they operated with their Prime Time investigates, they would probably accuse the wrong person of winning...

AnonoBoy

RobertKK wrote: »

Knowing how they operated with their Prime Time investigates, they would probably accuse the wrong person of winning...

Why did you name this 7 year old child as the Lotto winner?

"Well he had a shiny car and pressed trousers, we just assumed he was a millionaire."

Sir Arthur Daley

AnonoBoy wrote: »

I still fail to see how anyone thinks RTE are "on the trail" of the winner.

They have hired in a lotto whisperer.

paulbok

AnonoBoy wrote: »

I still fail to see how anyone thinks RTE are "on the trail" of the winner.

It probably just means someone in RTE is checking twitter every so often for lotto related hash-tags.

_Kaiser_

If I won I think I'd call them the next working day and find out what the arrangements were to verify/collect it, then wait a week or so for the initial media frenzy to die down

I'd then casually stroll into the office one day, get it sorted, and stroll out.
If I WAS quizzed by some reporter-type I'd just laugh and say "don't I wish!"

No fuss at all. That idea about spending a few days in a fancy hotel somewhere while thinking it over is a good one too.

No-one would know though.. I don't have a large family, don't know anyone in the apartment block I live in, and I wouldn't be telling friends either until the plans were made - and even then I'd say I only won 300k or something (enough to explain the new car and house and thus throw them off the scent)

Then yes, a while later I think I'd get that new job somewhere abroad and that would be that