Man loses his job but wins €100k Lotto
Woman whose aunt found dead in street demands action on crisis
National Lottery A MAN who recently lost his job is set for an unforgettable Christmas after winning €100,000 on a scratch card.
The 28-year-old Romanian national came to Ireland to find work six years ago but lost his job in October.
The 28-year-old, who lives in the Midlands, bought his scratch card in the Mace Store in Monard, Co Tipperary.
He said he plans to put cheques for €10,000 into big gift boxes for each of his family, and place them under the Christmas tree.
He added: “I cannot wait to see their faces when they open the boxes on Christmas morning.
“I am going to say nothing about this win until then.” THE niece of a homeless woman who died on the streets last week has begged the Government to sort out the crisis before another person dies on the streets.
The body of Kathleen O’sullivan, 43, was found on Anderson’s Quay, Cork, last Wednesday.
Her heartbroken niece Nikitta O’sullivan has set up a Gofundme page to pay for her funeral.
She said: “There should be a big thing happening about it. People should just get together and stop it. There can’t be people on the streets anymore, especially in the cold.
“To think of Kathleen dying there and then another person dying there would be sickening. We are trying to raise money for Kathleen’s funeral costs and her gravestone. We don’t want this to happen to anyone else.”
Nikitta said mother-of-two Kathleen had suffered a lot but retained a great sense of humour.
She added: “She was very funny. I couldn’t have a bad word to say about her. She was the nicest person you would ever meet. She has been homeless for a good couple of years. Kathleen also lost her Aunty Helen on the streets. I don’t think it has hit me yet.
“Kathleen was a joker. She was always cracking jokes. She always watched out for other people.
“She lost her son, her mother and her dad and two of her brothers and had a hard life.”
Since the tragedy, Nikitta has gone out on the streets herself with the Helping Cork’s Homeless charity.
She said: “It puts your mind at ease to know you are helping another family to not go what we went through.”
Meanwhile, a vigil in memory of Mrs O’sullivan was held at Brown Thomas in the city last night.
Christina Chalmers of Helping Cork’s Homeless said: “I do not want her to become a statistic. Let us not ever forget our homeless who died.”
■ If you would like to contribute to the appeal visit www.gofundme.com/ kathleen-o-sullivan-head-stone.
CORK YESTERDAY
To think of Kathleen dying and another person is sickening NIKITTA O’SULLIVAN