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25th Nov 2015

PIC: It’s finally happened! A young Irish teacher has won TEN THOUSAND EURO on a scratchcard

Some people have all the luck

Carl Kinsella

There’s hope for us all.

It’s pretty widely accepted that, when it comes to scratch-cards, anything above the €25 is really just there to get your hopes up.

Well, that’s just been blown out of the water.

Scratch-card sales are about to sky-rocket now that one young Irish emigrant, now living in Dubai, has won €10,000 (that’s TEN. THOUSAND. EURO.) on a scratch-card his mammy sent him for his birthday this week.

Here’s the proof:

https://www.instagram.com/p/-f0ex4oH98V5wXu2oJYazy35Pe3wN1r9vLrg00/

We’re not even jealous, we’re just amazed.

Cheers to Andrew Thornbury for sending this our way.  If you have something you would like to share with us, send it to editorial@joe.ie or hit us up on Facebook or Twitter.

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