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IT WAS A great start to the week for two lotto winners who collected their prizes today.
The winners of a Lotto Match 5 plus bonus prize worth €164,650 were a Wicklow family. The lucky ticket was bought by the winning husband in the Dunnes Stores in Mountkennedy Town Centre. Over a glass of champagne, his wife spoke of how the family had been struggling financially:
“God bless Lotto! It’s hard to believe the difference this win will make. We only had €40 left to make ends meet for the week – and then we win over €164,000! It’s so hard to believe.”
They will clear the arrears on their mortgage with the money and put the rest away for “the rainy day fund”.
“And we’ll have lots of fun planning a family holiday for July, when school’s out”, said the winner.
The celebrations continued this afternoon as a Dublin man bounced into National Lottery offices to collect his fantastic EuroMillions Match 5 prize of €382,842, from Friday 8 January.
“I am currently juggling a full time job with part time studies, and have a number of exams in January. I was attempting to revise last Friday when the EuroMillions draw popped into my mind. Of course I immediately scrapped my revision and bought my ticket online. It’s the first time procrastination really has paid off!” he laughed.
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I wonder will his coffin fit?
@Andrew Sinnott: Class comment….brilliant!!!
Well he,s met his maker now…maybe God won’t b so forgiving!!!!
@Roy Dowling: if you say God doesn’t exist, then that’s good enough for me :)
@Roy Dowling: Well i believe in him,God that is…
Anyhow what does it matter he,s dead now …OJ
@Roy Dowling: You may believe there is no God, but you don’t know. We only find out when we die, by which time it may be too late!
@Brian Hunt: How do you know we only find out when we die Brian?I’m intrigued.
@Roy Dowling: Fair play Roy,your the gobsh.te that has finally pushed me to stop reading the tripe on The Journal.
What a 24 carrot plonker
@Roy Dowling: Sad man with that attitude
@Roy Dowling: I find people who feel the need to pipe up and have a pop at religion to be ever so tiresome. It’s immature and smacks of somebody who is both insecure and used to being ignored. Trolls like you bore me.
@Paul Gorry: At that point, you’re beyond all knowledge, or caring!
@Brian Hunt: I know that Brian obviously duh.. but will i see god or not see god? Cmere Brian you brought it up.
@Paul Gorry: If you leave me your phone number, I’ll let you know when I die, assuming you haven’t died before me, in which case you’ll let me know!
@Brian Hunt: 666 is my number Brian. Careful now..
@Bernadette Connaughton: very christian,If he repented on his death bed, then God has forgiven him, then should you do the same.
Living proof if you’re famous you can get away with murder, or double homicide in his case
I’d say you’d need to have more than enough to pay your top team of lawyers as well. In full; or have wealthy supporters.
Pity it took so long…..
@Cormo R: pity? It was pity that stayed bilbos hand
Some thug he was, and then in latter years he was involved in an armed robbery in Las Vegas. Good riddance.
The first time in history that the cops tried to frame a guilty man.
Very sad, one of the good guys, RIP OJ
@Paul Gorry: lol
@Paul Gorry: headcase
@Paul Gorry: I pity your wife
@Sean Money: I’m gay
@Paul Gorry: iam not gay.
@Paul Gorry: You could still be married to a woman. Plenty are.
@Paul Gorry: denial
@Clare Power: lol
@damien leen: hiya damo which Paul gorry is in denial?
I’ll always remember him in the slow speed police chase doing a blazing saddles reenactment.
@John Smith: in a bronco.
How on earth did this cowardly thug get away with it??
@Private Parts: if the glove don’t fit, you gotta acquit.
@Private Parts: The best defence lawyers money can buy, the LAPD’s previous misbehaviour, an overly confident prosecution team amongst other factors.
@Jimmy Wallace: I grew up thinking he was one of the lawyers at the forefront and a criminal lawyer but he was an entertainment lawyer who had let his license lapse, he re-activated it to join the defence team because then he couldn’t be called to testify. He had been seen carrying a bag of OJ’s shortly after the murders that was never found. He mostly just sat there during the trial, Johnnie Cochran was the one doing most of the defending. By all accounts Cochran thought he was guilty too.
@Private Parts: a terrible case by the prosecution and a heavily lopsided jury. It was obvious he did it. I was living in the States at the time and they were obsessed by the case. Me too to be honest. What side you were on was heavily split by race. I knew black people who were convinced he did it but wanted him to be acquitted. It was a strange time.
@Jimmy Wallace: The TV show is based on the book The Run of His Life by Jeffrey Toobin, written in 1996. There’s a bit of artistic license in the show but that’s mainly just between those who weren’t involved at all and have only spoken out a bit, like between Kardashian and AC Cowlings or between OJ and Kardashian privately etc. It’s fairly spot on with the trial itself.
The OJ: Made in America documentary is excellent too, 5 long episodes but covers his early life right up to the Vegas robbery and conviction. Well worth a watch imo!
Karma
RIP OJ
Well RID
He was gas in the Naked Gun movies.
He was found not to have done it by a court of law. But guilty in a civil trial. Only people who got anything out of this were the lawyers, and still no one, apart from, and those who were found dead, really know who did it.
I wondered at the time why ‘double jeopardy’ didn’t apply. I understand his popularity and the probable bargaining that probably went on, but it was a double murder, not as if he sold a dud car.
@F Fitzgerald: what. Double jeopardy, two different cases, one criminal one civil. Duh..
Simon Harris is setting up an enquiry to look into the circumstances of his death
Scary the number of people in their 70s that have died this year.
People are dying now who never died before …
@Michael Murray: Ok, I’ll bite. Why do you think more people in their 70s are dying this year than any other year, what do you think is the cause ? Pretty sure I know where you’ll go, but look forward to seeing the data you’ve compiled by ‘dOiNg YoUr OwN rEsEaRcH and fInDiNg ThE tRUtH’
The world is a better place with him gone!
Watched a good documentary about the murders, the conclusion was that oj son had killed them and oj covered it up…..the man that was killed was a skilled black belt and it was determined oj was too old to over power this man also oj son had a problem with ojs wife.
@Clare Power: Hilarious. The man was literally an American football player (and a known serial wife beater) and still in great shape at 45. He could overpower most people.
@Philip Groark: I didn’t make the documentary… he had a bad leg, did he not, which put him at a disadvantage
@Clare Power: One of the biggest flaws with that theory is that OJ could never even take responsibility for his own documented abuse, the one time he plead no contest he tried to downplay it and say it was mutual, his ‘community service’ involved setting up celebrity events. No way he’d take the fall for someone else, even his son. Occam’s razor comes into play here.
How is this news anyone under 40 doesn’t even know him
@Larry O Reilly: you mean, he wasn’t on Love Island? OMG
@Larry O Reilly: Wrong
@Larry O Reilly: so anything that happened before you were born doesn’t matter, is that it? Nob-jockey comment.
@Tezmond McVicar: born in 64 I’m talking about a different generation.
If Chewbacca is a wookie, you must accept
The Man with Jeromy Beadle hands
It wasn’t him. It was the one-armed man!
Saville, queen lizzie, OJ, bin laden, thatcher, paisley….dam it really is hell
The “Wookie” Defence;)
The glove did not fit but I think he was doing muscle strengthning exercises to increase the size of his hands. As double killers go he wasn’t the worst of them.
@Mark Reville: What??
It’s not up to us to judge, when’s the movie about him coming out.
No loss.
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