Irish winner in Euromillions 175 million..

sjb25

Kevin Finnerty wrote: »

Yeah but would you be happy? Really happy?

Let me think

Cee-Jay-Cee

Miike wrote: »

Tullamore the ticket was sold in

Imagine the damage a BIFFO could do with that amount of money. I really hope its not true and that its won by someone from somewhere more civilized.

Foggy Jew

Seriously, though. It's a wet Tuesday night in mid February. You're pottering about, doing your usual pre-bed stuff - making lunches, emptying the dishwasher, the usual things. The news reader says Euromillions won in Ireland. You say Oh, wouldn't it be grand if it was me. You check your ticket ....... And it IS you. What do you then? Like, seriously? In those initial minutes after it dawns on you that you are now fabulously wealthy - what do you do? Offer up a prayer of thanks? Rush off to tell the family?
I think I would have a heart atrack & drop down dead.
I suffer from insomnia. I put myself to sleep with such imaginings.
The very best of luck to the winners. I have my begging letter written, I just need your address now & I'll pop it off to you.

el Fenomeno

TomSweeney wrote: »

I like to think I'd have the maturity and common sense not to let it ruin my life - but who knows ?

I often think this.

Like, 95% of me is sure I'd keep grounded, spend it semi-sensibly and look after my friends and family.

But there's 5% of me that's picturing the looks on my colleague's faces as I roll up to work in a custom suit made out of €500 notes with an assistant who's job is specifically to feed me seedless grapes on demand.

Deebles McBeebles

Foggy Jew wrote: »

You check your ticket ....... And it IS you. What do you then?

Get the "f*ck off everyone" sign out from under the stairs and clean it up for work the next day. Maybe bring a nice bottle of wine and a deck chair with me so I could sit outside with it.

utyh2ikcq9z76b

SteelyDanJalapeno wrote: »

It makes sense that somebody has won it.

You have a 50/50 chance, you're either going to win it or you're not.

Huh? The odds of winning the EuroMillions jackpot is 1 in 139,838,160

TomSweeney

Emely Round Sash wrote: »

Huh? The odds of winning the EuroMillions jackpot is 1 in 139,838,160

To give yourself a real look at just the un believable long odds of winning



https://www.cuandomevaatocar.com/en/euromillions/simulator/

TomSweeney

"Your first 4+1 match finally emerged after 30 years"

... Yeah ... I'm off to learn to code.

Gonad

looksee wrote: »

So you look at the numbers and realise you have won that kind of money...what do you do with the ticket until you can get it to the National Lottery, or wherever you take it? Put it on your bedside table, but what if the house caught fire and you didn't have time to grab it, or the lights were all gone and it fell on the floor, or one of the kids came in and decided to scribble on it. Would you just sit and mind it all night. Then you leave it down while you go and get tidied up to go to Dublin and...well anything could happen. It doesn't bear thinking about, not worth it really. Safer not to win.

I would cello tape it round my Johnston

Willy warmer and the ticket is safe . Believe me nobody dares go near my member anyway

Feisar

There are people with that kind of money and there are people to whom €175M wouldn't be anything to get excited about. How do they manage to get through the day?
I suppose there is something about one of the worker bees being suddenly made the queen, we aren't born into it, our peers are worker bees. I presume money doesn't automatically buy one a place at the big table?

TCM

Yep, twas me.

Feisar

Yis all heard the one about the farmer that won the lotto?

He was asked what he was going to do with it. He said, "sure I'll keep farming till it's all gone."

LirW

Foggy Jew wrote: »

You check your ticket ....... And it IS you. What do you then?

Talked about that in the car and realised I wouldn't be able to cope with it at all. I'd have panic attacks because at that time of the day I couldn't call a solicitor. I need a solicitor.
Then, while not being able to sleep, I realise, even though I did books for a few years I have no idea how to handle being this rich. Realistically we all don't know. Then I'd be happy and super uneasy at the same time.

Then, after my eyebags turn black and I inhaled 50 cups of coffee and smoked a pack of fags (I don't consume either), I decide to call a driver, the best I can find, to bring me up to Dublin and tip him 100. Doesn't matter that my bank account is now empty because that guy charged me the equivalent of my monthly shopping bill, I'm bleeding rich.
Go claim the money and change the world. Or not. Maybe I set 80% of it on fire.

callaway92

TheMilkyPirate wrote: »

LOL

Not sure I understand this.

The simplest person would think you gain a lot of 'friends'...but it'd have the opposite effect.

ToBeFrank123

I just hope its not an old pensioner who will stash it under the mattress or the banking or post office equivalent.
Good luck to them whoever they are. Life changing in the extreme for them and relatives.
Not jealous in the least!

el Fenomeno

How does receiving the prize work, are you just paid the lump sum into your bank account?

ShadyAcres

el Fenomeno wrote:

How does receiving the prize work, are you just paid the lump sum into your bank account?

I read before that if you win then you can have a secret account.
Most bigger banks are used to dealing with wealth and the staff in your local branch won't even know that you have this kind of money.

AlmightyCushion

el Fenomeno wrote: »

How does receiving the prize work, are you just paid the lump sum into your bank account?

In an effort to encourage winners to be more financially prudent, they now only give you the jackpot in tesco coupons. 20c off a litre of milk, that type of thing.

LirW

ToBeFrank123 wrote: »

I just hope its not an old pensioner who will stash it under the mattress or the banking or post office equivalent.

If that's the case, chances are the church will get a hefty sum of it. It's not something that's talked about but it's common for religious organisations to pursue old people to leave them their estate behind. And surprisingly enough this happens often, especially when the people are very lonely.

force eleven

Remind me wrote: »

They won’t release it for a few days

They know where it was bought straight away

Yes, that's right, why did they not word it like that though?

123balltv

Security for 24hrs forever if the winner stays in Ireland

CPTM

"You won't believe this, Honey! Pack your bags! I've won the Euromillions!!"

"What?! The Euromillions??"

"That's right, come on pack your bags!"

"Oh my god! What will I pack?! Something warm? Something light?!"

"I don't care Honey! Just pack your bags, and f*ck off!"

-Bernard M

corcaigh1

CPTM wrote: »

"You won't believe this, Honey! Pack your bags! I've won the Euromillions!!"

"What?! The Euromillions??"

"That's right, come on pack your bags!"

"Oh my god! What will I pack?! Something warm? Something light?!"

"I don't care Honey! Just pack your bags, and f*ck off!"

-Bernard M

Hahahahaha!!!

force eleven

Someone has claimed it. I haven't checked my ticket but I hope of a Willie Wonka ticket no 5 scenario....

Ri_Nollaig

force eleven wrote: »

Someone has claimed it. I haven't checked my ticket but I hope of a Willie Wonka ticket no 5 scenario....

HAHA I am the same!

I assume, if you ring them claiming to be holding the winning ticket, they must ask for some level of confirmation? Numbers below the bar code or something

Wheety

Alrigghtythen wrote: »

Are you walking or taking the bus?

On the way to collect 175million, treat yourself.. Take a cab

In my imaginary scenario,l I was getting the Luas to the lottery office as I didn't want anyone to know. The taxi driver would be asking questions.

TomSweeney wrote: »

If it ever happened to me , I don't think I would tell anyone - just wife and siblings and parents, but no one else ... not even close friends or inlaws.


I knew an accountant that dealt with a lot of lottery winners, he told me it was the kiss of death.
I like to think I'd have the maturity and common sense not to let it ruin my life - but who knows ?

Yeah, but you think your wife, siblings and parents will keep it quiet? I know my mother couldn't keep that a secret and would tell her sisters. Then they'd tell other people and then it'd be like Fr. Ted when all the oul wans are gossiping about Eoin McLove arriving.

Ri_Nollaig

Ri_Nollaig wrote: »

HAHA I am the same!

I assume, if you ring them claiming to be holding the winning ticket, they must ask for some level of confirmation? Numbers below the bar code or something

Turns out thats exactly what they do!

RTE wrote:

...
Speaking on RTÉ's Sean O'Rourke, Lottery spokesperson Miriam Donohoe said "somebody out there has called us and it seems they have the winning ticket, although it has to be verified yet", but person who contacted the office was able to give a unique serial number from the ticket.
...

https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2019/0220/1031629-euromillions-jackpot/

TomSweeney

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

In an effort to encourage winners to be more financially prudent, they now only give you the jackpot in tesco coupons. 20c off a litre of milk, that type of thing.

Reminds me of that scene in Dumb and Dumber ...




"That's as good as money sir .... Those are IOU's .... "

Hoboo

Family syndicate of 7 brothers and sisters from Duleek area, co meath.

super_furry

I think you could just about keep a normal Lotto jackpot win under wraps but that kind of money? Hard to see how it could be done.

Henry Ford III

I won €4

RMAOK

Hoboo wrote: »

Family syndicate of 7 brothers and sisters from Duleek area, co meath.

Wasn't there another Major euromillions lotto win in meath a few years ago also?

utyh2ikcq9z76b

Hearing two sisters from Duleek

TomSweeney

Emely Round Sash wrote: »

Hearing two sisters from Duleek

They could renovate the whole town for a small fraction of the jackpot.

TheBlock

TomSweeney wrote: »

They could renovate the whole town for a small fraction of the jackpot.

Duleek???...it'd take more than €175M

mikemac2

Is there any part of Ireland that hasn’t been in a rumour on this thread yet

Hoboo

mikemac2 wrote: »

Is there any part of Ireland that hasn’t been in a rumour on this thread yet

It's the Rogers and Whearty families from naul/bellewstown to be precise. Nice family. One of the lads wives divorced him last year. I'd say she's sick.

InterestedK

Small talk topic of the day:

"You didn't win the Euromillions last night, did you?!"

Sir Oxman

Bought in Daybreak, The Naul Co Dublin
Winners from Duleek

I know someone in Duleek!

Sir Oxman

Hoboo wrote: »

Family syndicate of 7 brothers and sisters from Duleek area, co meath.

25mil each!

chris_ie

If you played online and won the jackpot, do they still announce where the winner came from?

chris_ie

Ten Pin wrote: »

They give the eircode for the world wide web

Sure loads of people dont even know how to use eircodes, I'll be grand!

hawkwing

Winner from seaview estate in Thurles

Deebles McBeebles

chris_ie wrote: »

If you played online and won the jackpot, do they still announce where the winner came from?

Asking for a friend?

chris_ie

Deebles McBeebles wrote: »

Asking for a friend?

Uh yeah.... can't have the neighbours knowing they won a fiver..

Sir Oxman

Sir Oxman wrote: »

Bought in Daybreak, The Naul Co Dublin
Winners from Duleek

I know someone in Duleek!

Omg it was nearly you!!!

Bigbagofcans

InterestedK wrote: »

Small talk topic of the day:

"You didn't win the Euromillions last night, did you?!"

A welcome change from the weather!

.G.

Is it not a bit bad to be naming winners here when they may well want to try and attempt to stay anonymous?

Bigbagofcans

superg wrote: »

Is it not a bit bad to be naming winners here when they may well want to try and attempt to stay anonymous?

People are drafting their begging letters as we speak!

murpho999

Emely Round Sash wrote: »

Hearing two sisters from Duleek

These lotto win news stories always do leak.