Summerhill Lotto jackpot claimed by winning syndicate
The lucky syndicate that scooped a cool €4.7m Lotto Jackpot in the 29th August draw after purchasing their ticket in the Londis Store in Summerhill, visited National Lottery Headquarters on Friday to claim their winnings.
The syndicate of five Dublin colleagues- who have chosen to remain anonymous- are each set to pocket over €954,000 and plan to pay off their bills and look after their family members with their new found fortune.
The lucky group purchased their winning Quick Pick selection ticket at Londis in Summerhill on 24th August.
The syndicate leader said he was stunned when he found out about their win on the Wednesday night of the €4.7 million Lotto draw:
“I was lying on the couch on the Wednesday night of the draw and I picked up my Lotto ticket to check the numbers on the phone. All of our numbers were there in a row - it was a bizarre feeling. I casually called out to my wife and said, ‘guess what, I think we’ve won the Lotto!’ I never thought I’d be that calm in such a situation but a part of me thought that I had to be making a mistake so I had to wait for the results to come through but once I saw that there was one winner in the North East, I knew that it was us!”
He said that calling his colleagues to tell them the good news was one of the best experiences of his life: “Once I was 100 per cent sure that we had won, I had to start calling everybody in the syndicate. With every phone call there was a moment of disbelief and then pure and utter joy. It’s a tremendous experience to be able to share this journey with a group of people who are as close as we are.”
While the Dublin group plan to keep their heads down and spend sensibly, some of them have started dreaming of far flung holidays and new cars but all were agreed that sharing with family members comes first:
“We purposely took a little time out to think about what we would do with our winnings. Each of the syndicate have their own plans but I know many of them will be wiping their mortgages clean and paying off bills. We’ll definitely treat ourselves to new cars and a couple of holidays but the most important thing to us are our families who will come first in any of our spending plans,” they added.