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A lucky Dublin work syndicate have collected their €500,000 prize on Monday from the National Lottery headquarters.
The 12 lucky work colleagues from a Dublin City business who are aged between 28 and 70 years of age were in flying form as they each collected almost €42,000 each.
‘The Rat Pack syndicate’ which has been playing Lotto for almost 30 years purchased their winning normal play ticket at the Tesco supermarket in Rathmines on Wednesday, August 9.
They won the prize in the Lotto Plus 1 draw which took place on Saturday, August 12.
“Luckily our boss was in the syndicate so he gave us all a half day,” laughed the syndicate leader.
“The office syndicate has been on-going for almost 30 years but we have never won anything as big as this before. We had a tough task on Thursday morning trying to convince the other lads that we had won the half million euro prize.
“One member of the group in particular was on holidays and we rang him to tell him to get into the office to sign a winning Lotto ticket. He was convinced it was just an elaborate prank to get him back into work!” he added.
When asked what they plan to spend the money on, the syndicate leader revealed that everyone has their own plans for the money.
“Everybody has discussed their own plans for the money whether it is looking after family, house deposits, cars or holidays,” he said.
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