The winners of a £216 million jackpot have revealed how they will be spending their fortune after claiming their winnings weeks ago.
The family from Cork, Ireland, won the largest EuroMillions prize in Ireland’s history, after buying a ticket from a small Centra store.
They have since revealed they plan to stay in their home city, with no ‘outrageous plans to spend the cash yet – except maybe a Rolex.
One family member said: ‘We’re planning to remain in Ireland, and we promised ourselves that we won’t let this win change us.’
Another said: ‘I’ll still be having my favourite ham and cheese sambo for lunch every day.’
But there are plans to travel to take the trips they had ‘dreamed of’.
Speaking to the Irish times, they added: ‘We’re absolutely going on a family holiday. We love to travel and there’s so many amazing trips we’ve always dreamed of that we can now make a reality.
‘We’re already looking at holiday homes somewhere in the sun.’
The husband said he was watching the news when they saw someone in Ireland had purchased the winning ticket.
He scanned the ticket on the National lottery app, and a message popped up saying: ‘You’ve won big, contact the National Lottery.’
The couple then spent the evening checking the numbers against the one on the website over and over again, before ringing the National lottery for confirmation the next morning which took a couple of minutes to do.
They said: ‘Those few minutes felt like the longest of my life.’
The winning ticket was stashed in an A4 sheet beneath a pile of laundry until they could hand it over.
But as soon as lottery officials were able to take it, the family sort out financial and legal advice.
Former winner Paddy Kehoe told Metro that any winner should make sure to get the money into their accounts ‘as soon as they can’.
‘I nearly took the National Lottery to court after they wouldn’t hand over the money quick enough,’ he said.
‘They need to get on it and get it in their accounts. You never know what’s going to happen, your house could burn down tomorrow so they need to sort it.’
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