Know Anyone Who Has Won The Lotto?

Big Nasty · 27-09-2013 11:33PM #1

...or any other major payout?

Always wondered how coming in to a large sum of money really affects people.

Do they stay loyal to their friends, family, partners or disown them for their new high-fallutin' rich buddies?

Anyone got any first hand experience as opposed to 'my sisters boyfriend's neighbours' stories?

mfceiling · 27-09-2013 11:35PM

Plumber on ailsebury road won it during the week.

Unfortunately he lost it also...

NIMAN · 27-09-2013 11:38PM

I know a guy who won a pile on the Irish lotto away back when it was quite new, many years back.

Think he won 150k punts or something like that.

Also know a guy in work who won £90k on the UK lottery about 10yrs back.

Sh1tbag OToole · 27-09-2013 11:39PM

I just got a PM from someone who won the lotto. It was only a GAA lotto though. They went quiet for a while so I assume they were drinking it up in Cafe en Seine during that time

kneemos · 27-09-2013 11:39PM

Everyone knows someone who's won it.

michellie · 27-09-2013 11:40PM

Yes, someone who won 2.8million.

LETHAL LADY · 27-09-2013 11:43PM

I worked with a man who won £70,000 as part of a syndicate in the weeks leading up to the closure of the factory in which we both worked. He got a nice redundancy aswell and was a very nice man to boot.

Sh1tbag OToole · 27-09-2013 11:47PM

LETHAL LADY wrote: »

I worked with a man who won £70,000 as part of a syndicate in the weeks leading up to the closure of the factory in which we both worked. He got a nice redundancy aswell and was a very nice man to boot.

I hope he found a decent job after. to top it all off

Red Kev · 27-09-2013 11:48PM

I know somebody who as part of a syndicate won £36,000 at the very beginning, when the jackpot was about £500,000. Paid off the mortgage that he'd only just started, paid £3,000 for a second hand Golf and went to Kerry for a week on holidays.

Put the rest (very little left) in the bank. Very sensible, very nice fella.

Frosty McSnowballs · 27-09-2013 11:54PM

Yeah 1.2 million punt back in the 90s.

Aaaaaand she was the cnut of the road too!

massdebater · 28-09-2013 12:00AM

Never thought of this before but I actually know 4 seperate people who won the lotto.

A friend of mine won €20k as part of a syndicate of about 50 people.

A man over the road won about €350k as part of a 3-man syndicate.

My cousin and her new husband won £500k in the UK lotto.

More of a friend of a friend, from near Clogherhead (who's father used to be a professional golfer) won €9 million in the lotto a few years ago.

Bastards the lot of them!

bbam · 28-09-2013 12:02AM

I know 4 jackpot winners.
One has passed away, all decent folk and haven't changed.
All bar 1 young couple would have been "comfortable" anyway.

LETHAL LADY · 28-09-2013 12:13AM

My Aunty won 40 grand on Winning Freak.

King George VI · 28-09-2013 12:14AM

Yep. A family that lived next to me won the lotto about 10 years ago. Nobody's heard of them since. They ****ed off to another county and didn't tell anyone. Which is exactly what I'd do.

If you won the lotto you'd have every 'friend' you've ever known or met come knocking at your door to 'catch up on old times' or every ****er in the pub wold be like "Ahh sure jaysus you're loaded now, this round is on you".

PISS! If I won I wouldn't tell a soul.

Sh1tbag OToole · 28-09-2013 12:22AM

LETHAL LADY wrote: »

My Aunty won 40 grand on Winning Freak.

Is it true that the programme is recorded many weeks before its aired and attendees are sworn to secrecy?

Hooked · 28-09-2013 12:22AM

Grew up around the corner from Dolores '115 million' mc namara. Went to school with her eldest, brother was in her daughters class, youngest brother palled with her younger 2 lads.

The night she won was mad. I was in Greece with her son on sky news partying and my other brother beside him.

Still meet her eldest son and husband around town and always aks 'if they're good for a loan'?

Know the Barman that checked her ticket, in the bar her nephew worked in. He's my brothers best mate. It was all over Limerick in minutes.

Ironically my brother got married the same day as her daughter. His wife's mam has the same name. Dolores McNamara. The press were all over our wedding. A press photographer friend called them off, vouching for us.

Mad money... And despite the press... A decent hard working woman and family.

massdebater · 28-09-2013 12:27AM

Sh1tbag OToole wrote: »

Is it true that the programme is recorded many weeks before its aired and attendees are sworn to secrecy?

Our milk man was on it about 10 years ago. It was filmed earlier in the week, maybe the Monday or Tuesday, and aired the Saturday. Not sure about being sworn to secrecy but our whole parish knew what he won before it aired. He only won €5,600 which was probably the smallest amount ever won in the show.

fro9etb8j5qsl2 · 28-09-2013 02:04AM

An auld bachelor cousin of mine won over a million punt back in the 90s. He did all the bits and bobs-gave a few thousand each to family, took everyone on a holiday to florida etc. He bought himself a small house (that cost 50 grand at the time) and a new car (that he still has and it has been used so rarely that it's still immaculate)

And then he proceed to blow the other half a million on hoors. Quite literally.

He still works in the same old job, lives in the same old house and goes for a few pints in the same old pub every evening. The only difference about him is that he has tge head of a fella that got his iron a fair few thousand times

Red Kev · 28-09-2013 01:10PM

Sh1tbag OToole wrote: »

Is it true that the programme is recorded many weeks before its aired and attendees are sworn to secrecy?

It's recorded the same day, or at least it was last year. Last year a guy in our apartment block was dragged into the audience as his sister was on it. The family all came down on a train from Dundalk that morning, hit an early house and were all fairly merry (definitely not drunk though) when the recording was made around noon that day. He was caught on camera once or twice for a split second, totally mortified as apart from the kids he thinks he was the only sober one there! Very funny. :pac:

Quazzie · 28-09-2013 01:15PM

I know someone who won €3Million. Split between two people (mother and daughter) and they don't have to worry about money any more, and they drive nicer cars, but it didn't change them at all. I used to play cards with them, and they'd still give out if the pot was ten cent short.:D

Teyla Emmagan · 28-09-2013 01:19PM

Saoirse Poor Threesome wrote: »

An auld bachelor cousin of mine won over a million punt back in the 90s. He did all the bits and bobs-gave a few thousand each to family, took everyone on a holiday to florida etc. He bought himself a small house (that cost 50 grand at the time) and a new car (that he still has and it has been used so rarely that it's still immaculate)

And then he proceed to blow the other half a million on hoors. Quite literally.

He still works in the same old job, lives in the same old house and goes for a few pints in the same old pub every evening. The only difference about him is that he has tge head of a fella that got his iron a fair few thousand times

Love it, that's brilliant

28-09-2013 01:23PM

Red Kev wrote: »

I know somebody who as part of a syndicate won £36,000 at the very beginning, when the jackpot was about £500,000. Paid off the mortgage that he'd only just started, paid £3,000 for a second hand Golf and went to Kerry for a week on holidays.

Put the rest (very little left) in the bank. Very sensible, very nice fella.

How much was the mortgage?

Banjo String · 28-09-2013 01:25PM

Won 2 different GAA club lottos before.

I also know a man who won the lotto before. £4m sterling. He was a recovering alcoholic, hadn't drank in years and the lotto win didn't change that either.

Gas though, he didn't go mad that's for sure. Second hand car, modest bungalow bought. Travels quite frequently, he's been in Australia, Morocco, USA, south Africa to bake a few this year alone(which would be my biggest attraction to millions, I love to travel) but apart from that he's the same fella.

Oh, and ladies..... he's a confirmed bachelor

so no gold digging.

Quazzie · 28-09-2013 01:25PM

bluewolf wrote: »

How much was the mortgage?

The Lotto started in 1986. Back then £30,000 would've bought a pretty decent house.

guillespe · 28-09-2013 02:08PM

I know a guy whose mother won the lotto ,we saw him in school the next day then the day after that he just dissapeared,and the mother sold the house,never heard of him after that..

Legs.Eleven · 28-09-2013 02:39PM

There's a couple here who are good friends with my friend here who I go out with a good bit who won the lotto. He's Spanish, she's Italian and they spend their time lording it up in their beach house down the South of Spain, in their apartment here in Madrid and travelling. Neither of them work.

Good plot · 26-10-2013 10:38PM

My friends parents won the euro millions a few years ago. I was invited to his pub in his back garden to pull my own pints and drink as much as we could. But as everyone passed out we were sitting there talking about old times and after a while he broke down tellin me how everything was ****e and he doesn't trust any of the guys asleep on the floor his so called mates. He looked miserable to me and my best mate. Looking at him id rather struggle through life make ends meat as I have a decent job and am managing with the bills than being flush and bored with no friends. My point is money does not buy happiness.