Limerick hurling captain, Donal O’Grady, spoke of his delight after his family’s SPAR shop sold a winning lottery ticket, for €4 million no less.
Donal is the manager of O’Grady’s Spar and Topaz, the shop he took over from his parents, Donie and Ruth, in 2012.
Chatting to the Irish Examiner, Donal said: “The lottery rep rang me around half past ten last night to tell me the ticket was sold in our Spar in Ballingarry… They said: ‘We’ve a bit of great news’.
“I was shocked. I didn’t believe it for a second. Ireland is a small country but Ballingarry is a small dot on that. It’s great for the locality and it’s great for rural Ireland.”
Donal said there’s great excitement in Ballingarry today
Donal said that the news has generated great excitement in the locality and “everyone is coming in checking tickets just to be sure.
“Nobody has come forward as far as we’re aware. The winner will probably sit down for 24 hours and think what they are going to do.”
He also explained that it’s the first time the shop has sold a winning lotto ticket so we can only imagine the going on in Ballingarry this evening.
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