Woman scoops second €50,000 scratch card prize at same shop
ENNISCORTHY’s Kiosk Shop is surely one of the luckiest shops in the country. Last week a woman purchased her second €50,000 winning scratch card in just six months there!
The woman, who wishes to remain anonymous, had already scratched off €50,000 in prize money in April and last week she found herself back at National Lottery Headquarters to claim another €50,000 prize. Remarkably, both tickets were purchased at The Kiosk Shop.
‘It’s amazing. I really cannot believe it,’ said the delighted Enniscorthy woman. ‘I bought a few things for the house with the last win and still have a huge chunk of it left. So this win will allow us to share it out among the family.’ ‘I was in the Kiosk and just thought I’d buy a Platinum card just to try my luck again and I just cannot believe that it was another winner! My husband is claiming that he has lucky hands as he scratched both cards but I told him that it’s my feet that are lucky as I was the one who walked to the shop to buy the cards!’ Speculation is rife as to the identity of the lucky winner, but owner of the Kiosk Shop Sarah Masterson is remaining tight-lipped, merely confirming that it’s a local winner. While she had sold the first €50,000 winner, her partner Damien Furlong handed over the lucky ticket this time around.
The little shop in the Abbey Centre is starting to get a big reputation as a frequent haunt of lady luck and is gathering an impressive list of National Lottery wins. Back in 2014, Sarah sold a €2.89m lotto ticket which was won by a syndicate of nurses at Wexford General Hospital. In 2017 there were further €10,000 and €500,000 wins.
‘I couldn’t believe it,’ Sarah said. ‘If you went into Paddy Powers, they wouldn’t take a bet on it! We’ve had a few other smaller wins this year on scratch cards as well. The very same day someone won €275 on the lotto.’