‘WE CAN’T GO BACK INTO ARSON HOME’
MUM OF THREE TELLS HOW FAMILY CHEATED DEATH AFTER HOUSE WAS SET ALIGHT
A YOUNG mother has spoken of the trauma of having to lower her terrified children from a bedroom window after their home was set alight while they slept in their beds.
Rebecca Gaughran and her three children, aged 10, 7 and four, now fear having to return to their council house in Laurence’s Park after the near-death incident.
Brave neighbours came to their rescue after they had to jump to safety after the home they’d been living in for just two weeks became engulfed in flames.
DROGHEDA woman Hannah Lynch was one of the big winners as the 2019/20 season of the Winning Streak game show was concluded at RTÉ studios in Dublin - with no cameras.
10 players took part in two separate game shows which paid out a total of €401,000 in cash prizes.
Hannah won a total of €28,000 in prizemoney.
The Drogheda woman has her dad, Liam to thank for her Winning Streak appearance as he was the one who put her name on the three star scratch card which ended up getting her on the show. She is over the moon about her stroke of luck and Liam accompanied her to RTE studios to support her.
Hannah is an assistant psychologist and works in Balbriggan for the HSE. She studied psychology in
UCD and graduated in 2018. With her winnings, Hannah hopes to put them to good use towards further education as she wants to go on to study clinical psychology.
Hannah is a keen runner in her spare time and the rest of her family will be wishing her well from a distance. They are Jean, her mum and her siblings, Rebecca and Conor.
Five of the selected players were originally due to appear on the Winning Streak TV Game show on Saturday 21st March but this was later postponed following government restrictions due to Covid-19. An additional five players from Cork, Dublin (2), Louth & Meath were later selected from a catch-all draw which recently took place at National Lottery HQ in Dublin.