Colette ‘takes away’ €33,000 in Lottery draw
AN Ardee woman’s trip to her local Chinese meant she missed her name being drawn out on Winning Street, but thankfully she still scooped €33,000 in prizes on the RTE show!
Colette Smyth from Ardee, Co. Louth won a Renault Zoe worth €25,000 and a further €8,000 in cash and she says he has been overwhelmed by the good luck and congratulations messages she has been receiving from her neighbours in the Ardee community and the entire town.
A couple of weeks ago, Colette was sitting in a Chinese restaurant enjoying a meal with members of her family when the call came through from a cousin to let her know her name had been drawn from the Winning Streak drum to appear on the next show.
Call after call came through from friends and neighbours which caused quite a stir in that restaurant.
It was music to Colette’s ears as she celebrated her stroke of luck then and there!
Colette is married to her husband Ray for the past 16 years and the couple have five children aged from 23-34 and are all were excited to cheer her on from the RTE.
Their names are Sharon, David, Alan, Ciaran and Michelle. Colette is also a proud grandmother to two grandchildren: Chloe (9) and Nathan (2).
By day Colette works as a cleaner in Ardee Community School, where she has worked for more than eight years. In her spare time, one thing Colette likes to do is play bingo with friends, which she plays in Dundalk.
The Winning Streak National Lottery TV game show is co-presented by Marty Whelan and Sinead Kennedy and features some perennial favourite games including Play or Pay, Roll for Riches, WinFall and Electric Dream – where one player will win an electric car worth €25,000.
A new-look Winning Streak scratch card is available in more than 5,800 National Lottery retailers all over the country.