EuroMillions winner Kathleen Sheridan says she and her Naul syndicate family can’t believe their luck s - The Irish Sun
A MEMBER of the family syndicate who are now Ireland's biggest ever Lotto winners told the Irish Sun tonight: "We just can't believe it."
The siblings, originally from Naul in north Co Dublin, scooped a sensational €175.4million in Tuesday night's EuroMillions draw.
Kathleen Sheridan is a member of the 'very close' family that won the largest Irish lottery win ever
We can reveal Kathleen Sheridan is one of the family members toasting the mega loot from a ticket bought in Reilly's Daybreak in Naul.
Mum Kathleen arrived home to her house in Dunleek, Co Meath, with a takeaway tonight after a life-changing 24 hours. She told us: "We're still in shock, we just can't believe it."
Shop owner Les Reilly, who lands a €25,000 bonus for selling the winning ticket, pledged to throw a party.
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Carly Reilly Flynn and her uncle Les Reilly, the owner of Reilly's Daybreak store in The Naul North County Dublin who sold the winning €175 million Euromillions ticket
He told the Irish Sun: "I'm over the moon, it will put the place on the map. We will have a shindig."
As the minted family syndicate spoke for the first time about the windfall, it emerged the EuroMillions siblings meet every Sunday — and hit it big after sadly losing two brothers last year.
Kathleen's daughter Emma told us: "They're going to share it between everyone . . . that's what they're like, a real tight-knit family.
"They meet in their house every Sunday and it's only in the last few weeks they've started playing the EuroMillions, because two of their brothers died quite close together last year, so they do that every Sunday.
Winner Kathleen is part of a very 'tight-knit' family
"It hasn't hit us . . . It's a major, big shock. It really hasn't sunk in yet. She (Kathleen) told us this morning and said not to say a word.
"They're up in the hotel at the minute and they're (the National Lottery) advising them."
Amid the jackpot mania, Emma joked she wanted looking after first.
She said: "I'll see what she's going to give me first! I'm actually delighted because she's (Kathleen) after having a very hard life. She deserves it. She's a great person."
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Reilly's employee Jackie McGrane celebrates the sale
It is the second time fortune has hit the family after a sister of Charlie Sheridan — Kathleen's husband — trousered over IR£600,000 years ago in the National Lottery.
But the clan are now at the centre of a major frenzy after bagging the biggest ever lottery win on this island. One of the winners hid their golden ticket in an Argos catalogue under their mattress overnight after being left "numb" by the massive windfall.
They frantically checked their numbers online after hearing on the news that the jackpot had been landed in Ireland.
Today stunned family members dropped the prized docket with National Lottery officials for safekeeping until the claim is paid out. The record-breaking winners are scattered across Meath and north Co Dublin, including The Naul, Bellewstown, Duleek and Ashbourne.
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Lotto rep Michael Hayes sprays the champagne as Carly Reilly Flynn, Les Reilly, Martina White, Anne Morgan, Louise Costello, and Jackie McGrane celebrate
It is the biggest jackpot ever landed in Ireland, beating the €115million bagged by Limerick woman Dolores McNamara on the EuroMillions in 2005.
It comes after Co Down couple Francis and Patrick Connolly won €130million on the EuroMillions on New Year's Day.
Naul Daybreak owner Les added: "We can't believe it. I'm over the moon for the winners.
"The buzz is great, we never sold a big jackpot before. We've been waiting on the big one. Like the football team say, 'we're a small area with big dreams'."
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At €175million, this is the biggest win in Irish lotto history
As he popped Champagne at the shop, Reilly told of the moment he learned his business had sold the lucky ticket.
He said: "When the National Lottery rang me, my legs went to jelly and I had to go down the back and puke my ring up, that was my honest reaction . . . and then we jumped around the place."
Les, who celebrated with his niece Carly Reilly Flynn who works in the shop as well as Jackie McGrane and National Lottery's Michael Hayes, David Woods and Paul Thomas, added: "Eleven countries in Europe doing the EuroMillions and our little village of 1,100 and we sell the winning ticket."
National Lottery spokeswoman Miriam Donohoe revealed Ireland's newest multimillionaires were "surprisingly calm" and "very together" when they called the office today.
Ms Donohoe said the National Lottery is "now guiding the winner through the process".
Meanwhile, National Lottery CEO, Dermot Griffin, congratulated the family. He said: "Happy days like this is what playing National Lottery games is all about. We are just so pleased for the family and that this huge amount is being shared out.
"The National Lottery exists to raise funds for good causes all over Ireland and this EuroMillions jackpot sequence raised €8.9million for organisations in the areas of health, arts, culture, heritage, youth, community, and the Irish language. That will have a major impact on communities all over Ireland.
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"This is a historic day in the life of the National Lottery with the biggest every payout from a draw-based game since we were established in 1987." Speaking about their mammoth win, a family member, who is married to one of the syndicate, said: "This is unbelievable. It will take us some time to get our heads around this win and to organise ourselves.
"We are a very close family. We meet every week and we take holidays together every year.
"This is a dream come through for us. We don't want this to change our lives."
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