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Bus driver wants to do the Lotto, buys his two passengers icecreams in the shop

Yes, this happened.

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CULTURE NORTHERN IRELAND shared this photograph taken on a bus yesterday, a little snapshot of a laid-back, friendly Derry.

The photographer, shown with his feet up and holding an icecream, claimed the bus driver stopped briefly in a shop to do the Lotto during his journey between Derry and Strabane.

On returning to the bus, the driver provided the only two passengers – including 33-year-old Ruairi Connolly – with an icecream each.

To the surprise of the Ruairí and The Owls’ musician, the photo received over 32,000 ‘likes’ and 1,326 ‘shares’ on Facebook within hours of his posting.

“Well hasn’t this gone a little out of control!” he said on Culture Northern Ireland’s page.

According to the Derry Journal, there may be even more to the story.

As Ruairi and his fellow passenger disembarked after chatting through the journey (the icecream was quite the icebreaker), the bus driver joked that he could take credit for a possible romance.

Watch this space.

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