If you’d just been made redundant you may not be thinking you’ve had a very lucky week, but not so for one lucky Irish lottery player who was made redundant from his job and then went on to win €200,000 on a scratch card!
The unnamed winner went along with his girlfriend and purchased the ticket for the All Cash Spectacular Game in a Mace store in Clintibret, Co Monaghan, but as they were on their way to a party they had no time to scratch it off.
The next day the man remembered he’d picked up three tickets so took them out to scratch them off. The first ticket was not a winner, but while scratching off the second card he could see he had two matching numbers, so he was a winner! Then he scratched off the prize box and could hardly believe it when he saw he had won €200,000.
He said he went into shock after the win and had to call his girlfriend to come and check the ticket, she confirmed that they had indeed won €200,000 and the pair has now claimed the prize.
Having been made redundant, the young man was down on his luck, but on the same week as the win he also found out he has a new job, giving him double the reason to celebrate! €200,000 might not be enough to retire on but it’ll certainly make a difference to the lives of this young couple, the latest big winners from Ireland.