Euromillions winner ... Where are u???

bullock

Has she come to collect her few quid yet???

RVN10

She is in hiding momentarely

Hobbes

From what I saw of the news is she is in hiding and personally I don't blame her.

Also Irish lotto doesn't have enough money to cover the winnings so it is busy getting te money wired to it. Considering the amount of cash I doubt very much she will turn up where people will know her.

dmck2886

Just heard on the news that she can't collect it until tomorrow or thursday as they have to collect the money off the other eight countries.

JackieChan

The French are tight...she could be waiting awhile for them to hand over their share!

toiletduck

if i won id stay anonymous, i dunno why she didnt do the same.

daywalker

toiletduck wrote:

if i won id stay anonymous, i dunno why she didnt do the same.

I'd say the other people in the pub, where she found out she'd won, blabbed to everyone else. I remember reading in a sunday newspaper that a "family friend" :rolleyes: , sold pictures of the moments when she saw that she had won to a tabloid for €25000. Some friend

Zapho

Not only did they blab, she gave it to a friend of hers to check the numbers and he shouted out in the middle of the pub "You won!!!" so everybody knew! And here name was published in the paper, along with the most part of her address so there's no chance she can keep this secret now. Her best bet would be to leave the country I think.

Flukey

So far, the winner has not come to the National Lottery Office Dublin to claim here prize, However another Irish winner of €667,248 in Friday's Euro Millions draw has claimed their prize. The other winner got 5 numbers and 1 Star winning their €667,248. That is a big difference between the highest prize and the second highest prize. That is a problem with most lotteries. The jackpot should be smaller with more money put into the lower prizes. The prize funds should be spread out over more of the prize categories. A jackpot half or even a quarter of that would still be well worth winning. You could have better match 4 or 5 numbers in the Lotto and still have a big jackpot. People would still play.

Dun

That's the problem though, I think it would effect the amount of people playing. Look how many people play, even people you know that wouldn't normally play, when there's a rollover jackpot. I think that it would make more sense to the average player to have the lower prizes increased, but then I'm speaking as a non-lotto player.

Flukey

An increasing Jackpot is always going to bring people in, no matter where you start from. So the same would happen. A €5,000,000 here gets the country playing like crazy, let alone €115,000,000. Also if people know they can win larger amounts in the other categories, that would encourage them to play.

Flukey

That other claimant of the prize €667,248 is apparently a Hungarian national, working in Dublin. Apparently the prize is about 100 times the annual wage in Hungary. An amount like that is great to win, which is my point. A smaller jackpot and bigger small prizes would be better.

I play a lot and I have got 4 numbers on occasions. That pays about an average of €46 which is a big difference between the minimum jackpot of €1,350,000. Even 5 numbers or 5 and the bonus pays a relatively small amount. Last Saturday the 5 and the bonus prize was €12,000 and 5 numbers paid just €1,290. Of course the jackpot should be much bigger than the other prizes, but they could reduce it a bit and increase the smaller prizes and still maintain a large gap.

bullock

Still no sign!

crazymonkey

i think she should be left to enjoy her good luck, and the papers should stop looking for her, i would not have gone public if it was me,

Sparky

shes moving to Turkey i believe, the family owns an apartment over there.

Prior Of Taize

"apparently" the guy who grabbed the ticket and said "you won" pissed her off so much that she called the guards.

in all fairness though you cant really go anywhere after a sudden win for over 100million. she will be pretty sought after in the next 12 months.

Femelade

she's even got a few kidnapping threats already i hear!
i'd do it! for only a million ransom.

CapatalisimCod

What an absoulute moran!! How can anyone be so stupid, a nephew in jail for murdering a keane brother, and in feicin limerick for gods sake!!! Could someone please tell me how you could be so stupid!!!
Why the hell did'nt she just keep her mouth shut, that womans life is ruined, 6 kids and I bet they will all have attempts on them in the next 6 months.
You can keep your winnings

gaui3d0pnbz86o

i agree, staying quiet would have been the best bet, but also very hard under the cercamstances

Mossy Monk

bullock wrote:

Still no sign!

who cares tbh

Pigman II

I think some of these idiots would rather be famous than rich. That's why they go public when they win.

Just out of interest, do the Lotto give sweeteners to winning syndicates etc who do the whole smiles and champagne photo-opportunity bit or do they just give the winners a bit of blarney saying they won't get the cheque until they go thru with it?

Me personally I wouldn't tell anyone, not even my family that I'd won. They'd just have to live under the suspicion that the new houses&cars I was buying for them was from the profits of drugs and live with it.

Mr.Nice Guy

She didn't mean to go public. She asked a friend of hers who was in a pub to check her numbes for her and she started screaming which pretty much let the cat out of the bag...

Pigman II

Well wasn't that quite a ridicularse thing of her to do that then wasn't it?

Was a check SO urgent that she needed to go flashing a potentially €115m ticket around in a pub?

Mr.Nice Guy

Pigman II wrote:

Well wasn't that quite a ridicularse thing of her to do that then wasn't it?

Was a check SO urgent that she needed to go flashing a potentially €115m ticket around in a pub?

In hindsight, yes but in fairness I doubt she expected to win the whole thing!

Flukey

They won't be able to pay out until at least tomorrow afternoon, as money has to come in from the other countries.

bullock

has she come forward yet???

Femelade

nope, supposedly staying in the silversrings in cork atm. think money is ready for collection about now

bullock

I believed that she has come and collected her money. Congrats Dolores.

Femelade

yeah just heard that, she hasnt come out f the building yet though, and is expected to make a comment when she comes out.

fair play to her.

galwaydude

her family have a very murky backround with her nephew in prison for life for killing one of the drugies in limerick and today the STAR revealed that her son attacked a man of 70 a few years ago and a month later he died.

bullock

I heard about the feuding in Limerick. I think she should move. Its going to be a really really though decision for her. Don't know what I'd do.

galwaydude

she should get the hell out of dodge city lol and move.Theres too many cowboys around that will try and make a fast buck off her.

nlgbbbblth

galwaydude wrote:

her family have a very murky backround with her nephew in prison for life for killing one of the drugies in limerick and today the STAR revealed that her son attacked a man of 70 a few years ago and a month later he died.

:mad: scum

lomb

thats the biggest after tax jackpot in the worlds history, the guy who one the 315million dollar powerball jackpot accepted 113million dollars in a lump sum after all taxes so her jackpot win is worth 20 million dollars more than that.well done

daveg

bullock wrote:

I think she should move. Its going to be a really really though decision for her. Don't know what I'd do.

It's going to be a really really tough decision whether to move out of Limerick or not after winning E112 million? Are you mad? Why is it a tough decision? Risk of hurricanes in the Bahamas?

lomb

daveg wrote:

It's going to be a really really tough decision whether to move out of Limerick or not after winning E112 million? Are you mad? Why is it a tough decision? Risk of hurricanes in the Bahamas?

so ud have left galway if u won 115 million?

Capt'n Midnight

lomb wrote:

so ud have left galway if u won 115 million?

Galway isn't Limerick

punka

CapatalisimCod wrote:

What an absoulute moran!! How can anyone be so stupid, a nephew in jail for murdering a keane brother, and in feicin limerick for gods sake!!! Could someone please tell me how you could be so stupid!!!
Why the hell did'nt she just keep her mouth shut, that womans life is ruined, 6 kids and I bet they will all have attempts on them in the next 6 months.
You can keep your winnings

This week's Holy Moly mailout suggests the following reason for her going public:

The dreadful salad onion-faced woman who won the lottery is the matriarch of a huge drug-selling family in Ireland.

The real reason she happily went so large on publicity is that she didn't want other members of the family to get their hands on the ticket (after she had a nasty accident).

She rang the local police and begged them to take the ticket into custody. They have actually been heard saying that they'll be using the cash to buy more guns and...wait for it...

...loads of scratchcards.

YOU CAN'T BOTTLE CLASS!!

Smileylynz

punka wrote:

This week's Holy Moly mailout suggests the following reason for her going public:

Dont be so mean everyone, she won the ticket fair and square.
Its besides the point who her family is, !

I wish her the best of luck and hope the money doesnt turn into a tradegy.

daveg

Capt'n Midnight wrote:

Galway isn't Limerick

Exactly.

lomb

daveg wrote:

Exactly.

u guys are funny, to leave home and head for the bahamas to a secluded life is lunacy, they say rapid lifestyle changes lead to great unhapiness.

she could always leave limerick and head for the sunnier climes of galway

nlgbbbblth

lomb wrote:

head for the sunnier climes of galway

as opposed to Meath?

Flukey

I won €9 in the Euromillions last night, but, as you can see I am going public on it, and I won't be going into hiding.

lomb

Flukey wrote:

I won €9 in the Euromillions last night, but, as you can see I am going public on it, and I won't be going into hiding.

well done i think if u matched 3 then that was a 1 in 57 chance, either u buy a lot of tickets or u were lucky

Capt'n Midnight

paper said she gave her house away..

whiskeyman

lomb wrote:

they say rapid lifestyle changes lead to great unhapiness.

Who is "they"?
"They" say lots of things.... and "they" usually tend to be people with not enough money!

"Money doesn't make the world go round" - maybe not, but it sure helps!!
"Money cant buy you happiness" - the motto of a poorman....