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

molly09 · 22-09-2014 09:15PM #1

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 · 22-09-2014 09:17PM

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 · 22-09-2014 09:18PM

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

dxhound2005 · 22-09-2014 09:18PM

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 · 22-09-2014 09:19PM

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 · 22-09-2014 09:19PM

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 · 22-09-2014 09:20PM

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!

22-09-2014 09:21PM

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 · 22-09-2014 09:23PM

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 · 22-09-2014 09:23PM

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

Blind Faith · 22-09-2014 09:27PM

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 · 22-09-2014 09:29PM

Fairplay to them.

The jammy cnut / cnuts.

Donald73 · 22-09-2014 09:39PM

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

Jaysus wish Pedro would hurry up with the champagne cocktails.

dundalkfc10 · 22-09-2014 09:40PM

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 · 22-09-2014 09:41PM

They'll never find me you poverty stricken scum.

porsche959 · 22-09-2014 09:42PM

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

doolox · 22-09-2014 09:43PM

...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 · 22-09-2014 09:45PM

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 · 22-09-2014 09:50PM

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 · 22-09-2014 09:52PM

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 · 22-09-2014 10:06PM

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 · 22-09-2014 10:10PM

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 · 22-09-2014 10:34PM

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.

22-09-2014 10:42PM

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 · 22-09-2014 10:47PM

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 · 23-09-2014 12:24AM

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 · 23-09-2014 12:46AM

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 · 23-09-2014 12:53AM

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

porsche959 · 23-09-2014 12:58AM

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 · 23-09-2014 01:21AM

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 · 23-09-2014 01:26AM

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

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

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