Look who won the Euromillions!

FreeFallin

http://theliberal.ie/congratulations-22-very-lucky-dublin-bus-drivers-are-the-winners-of-the-euromillions-worth-e23-million/

This will prove to be a popular win, no-doubt. I'm not sure if they are 'Dublin Bus' drivers, or bus drivers from Dublin. Congrats to them either way!

Titzon Toast

A Dublin bus driver who came from where I grew up won a couple of million on the Irish lotto a few years back. He still works for them too!

Alf Stewart.

Bus ****.

lawlolawl

Titzon Toast wrote: »

He still works for them too!

People like this sicken me. The money is wasted on them.

Captain Chaos

lawlolawl wrote: »

People like this sicken me. The money is wasted on them.

I'd still work if I won too. Maybe a 3 day in something I like doing to keep me sane. You'd need to win at least 5-6 million in this country to not actually need to work anymore and properly enjoy yourself, anything less and I'd still keep my day job.

Gatling

2nd time a syndicate from DB has hit the jackpot

s4uv3

That's class. It's great when a hape of people get to share in the excitement and give their mortgage providers the finger

fryup

so this will only mean one thing....

more late buses

DrGreenthumb

Fare play to them

Collie D

Ah, bus drivers. Some are arseholes, some are decent. Be more annoying if they were Luas"drivers".

Link won't open for me. Any mention of which depot they're in?

finnharpsboy

Collie D wrote: »

Ah, bus drivers. Some are arseholes, some are decent. Be more annoying if they were Luas"drivers".

Link won't open for me. Any mention of which depot they're in?

Broadstone i think it is

Collie D

finnharpsboy wrote: »

Broadstone i think it is

Grand. Won't be walking to work tomorrow so

Dirty Dingus McGee

Thank God.

For a second I was afraid I might know the winner.

PopePalpatine

Collie D wrote: »

Ah, bus drivers. Some are arseholes, some are decent. Be more annoying if they were Luas"drivers".

Link won't open for me. Any mention of which depot they're in?

It's from The Liberal, they probably plagiarised it. :pac:

Collie D

Dirty Dingus McGee wrote: »

Thank God.

For a second I was afraid I might know the winner.

Haha, one or two lads on my routes I wouldn't like to see win either. Majority are decent enough including an old school friend. Nice number to split it. Probably not going to retire on it but no more financial worries for 22 families.

FreeFallin

Original link is no longer working, but here's some more info -

http://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/could-irish-euromillions-winner-syndicate-8337844

fonda

At least it wasnt the Luas drivers. They probably would have asked for more!

PhiloCypher

Just so long as it wasn't those work shy Luas bollixes

fryup

^^^^^^^^^^

no its those work shy Dublin Bus bollixes

BettePorter

Luas drivers won't be happy about this. Expect notice of strike action any minute.

syklops

Thank Christ it wasn't Luas drivers.

evolving_doors

I wish them the very best of luck...

but in true fashion I would now request that they please give me the refund ticket and not fumble around pretending the machine is broken whilst driving all over the fu**ing road.

But well done..

y'bastads.

murpho999

I hope the National Lottery pay the out in exact change.

Thoie

murpho999 wrote: »

I hope the National Lottery pay the out in exact change.

Or each of them will get 7million cheques for 15-35 cents each, that can only be cashed in one particular bank in Bantry.

Well done to all the winners though - hope they make the best of their windfall.

ToddyDoody

Titzon Toast wrote: »

A Dublin bus driver who came from where I grew up won a couple of million on the Irish lotto a few years back. He still works for them too!

Maybe having a money buffer allows him be extra nasty?

Peregrine

fonda wrote: »

At least it wasnt the Luas drivers. They probably would have asked for more!

Funnily enough, the Luas drivers are probably still richer than these lot.

lawlolawl

Captain Chaos wrote: »

I'd still work if I won too. Maybe a 3 day in something I like doing to keep me sane. You'd need to win at least 5-6 million in this country to not actually need to work anymore and properly enjoy yourself, anything less and I'd still keep my day job.

Madness.

If i won and still went in to work the first time someone gave me the slightest bit of hassle i'd walk out the door and never go back.

So, basically i'd leave roughly ten seconds after my shift started.

Sand

lawlolawl wrote: »

Madness.

If i won and still went in to work the first time someone gave me the slightest bit of hassle i'd walk out the door and never go back.

So, basically i'd leave roughly ten seconds after my shift started.

I think you're overestimating how far the money would go. Unless you live on beans and toast in a cardboard box and limit your holidays to points you can reach by public transport you'll run out of cash inside 10-20 years.

lawlolawl

Sand wrote: »

I think you're overestimating how far the money would go. Unless you live on beans and toast in a cardboard box and limit your holidays to points you can reach by public transport you'll run out of cash inside 10-20 years.

Maybe if you don't invest a good chunk of it it would. If you blow through 5-6 million in 10-20 years then you are **** with money and shouldn't have it.

Think, the net average yearly wage in Ireland is like 26k. Multiply that by say 40 years worked and that's barely over 1 million.

syklops

Sand wrote: »

I think you're overestimating how far the money would go. Unless you live on beans and toast in a cardboard box and limit your holidays to points you can reach by public transport you'll run out of cash inside 10-20 years.

23 Million. 22 Drivers, so just over 1 Million each. If you were careful, you could give yourself a 25k a year net "salary" for the next 40 years, not including interest. 25k net, is 2083 euros a month net. Hardly beans and toast territory.

December2012

But not enough to retire

lawlolawl

December2012 wrote: »

But not enough to retire

Presume that most of these guys aren't 20. 1 million would do a lot of these guys up until they die.

I'm 33 and if i got my hands on a million quid i'd be seriously thinking about jacking work in for good.

Vic_08

Sand wrote: »

I think you're overestimating how far the money would go. Unless you live on beans and toast in a cardboard box and limit your holidays to points you can reach by public transport you'll run out of cash inside 10-20 years.

Buy €1m worth of high value letting property and you would comfortably net more than a bus driver's salary and still have the capital in the property. Other investment routes would also provide a good return.

Before interest rates tanked living off the interest was viable on €1m of lottery winnings, not so these days.

Sand

syklops wrote: »

23 Million. 22 Drivers, so just over 1 Million each. If you were careful, you could give yourself a 25k a year net "salary" for the next 40 years, not including interest. 25k net, is 2083 euros a month net. Hardly beans and toast territory.

Well, paying your mortgage is going to take half of that straight away. Then you're going to have to go and buy your own private health insurance because you wont have an employer doing it for your anymore. VHI are quoting 250 euro a month to cover a family. Now you're down to 800 Euro to support a family of say 4 for a month.

That is beans and toast territory.

Fleawuss

At least it wasn't fcuking taxi drivers. Fcukers.

lawlolawl

Sand wrote: »

Well, paying your mortgage is going to take half of that straight away. Then you're going to have to go and buy your own private health insurance because you wont have an employer doing it for your anymore. VHI are quoting 250 euro a month to cover a family. Now you're down to 800 Euro to support a family of say 4 for a month.

That is beans and toast territory.

It's adorable that you think Dublin Bus or any CIE company pays for private health insurance for their employees.

A lot of people don't bother with private health insurance in this country anyway because we don't have a particularly good private health system on top of our crap public health system.

Not all of them will have mortgages either. Only in Ireland could people think that a million quid windfall would mean you'd have to keep working.

Sand

lawlolawl wrote: »

It's adorable that you think Dublin Bus or any CIE company pays for private health insurance for their employees.

A lot of people don't bother with private health insurance in this country anyway because we don't have a particularly good private health system on top of our crap public health system.

Not all of them will have mortgages either. Only in Ireland could people think that a million quid windfall would mean you'd have to keep working.

Most winners have mortgages, have families to provide for and have bills to pay. A million euro will make their lives easier. It could wipe out the mortgage, buy a very nice car and allow for a career change or just to have some fun. But it could not allow you to stop working unless you were going to live like a college student.

Now maybe if the winner has no mortgage, no family or dependents, is never going to get sick, has no interests and wants to live like an OAP then they could quit their job on a million euros lottery win. But very few people are in that situation.

MadYaker

lawlolawl wrote: »

Presume that most of these guys aren't 20. 1 million would do a lot of these guys up until they die.

I'm 33 and if i got my hands on a million quid i'd be seriously thinking about jacking work in for good.

Move to some rural part of Spain or Greece or some other cheap country and you'd live very comfortably on 25k a year.

mrsWhippy

I love seeing syndicates win these large winnings. A much better use of the money imo - I think it's criminal to have a single individual walk away with amounts like 60 or 70 million!

I hope they all enjoy it.