Lotto punter lands jackpot of €2.4million
flooding back. I had a son, Mark, and this time I ran with him.
“They were all in Mass and there was nobody in the nursery. I wrapped him up and ran down the driveway. How I got to the train I don’t know. I went back to the baby’s father, he nearly died when I walked in. We used a drawer for a crib. I
A TEST dig began a month ago at a burial ground outside Roscrea in Co Tipperary to establish what remains are buried there.
The excavation work at Sean Ross Abbey is under the direction of the Mother was expecting the guards to come for me but they never did.”
When Ann got her files from Bessborough they included a signed consent form for Mark – even though she left without putting her signature to anything.
Mark is now 43 and she has three other
and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation into 18 such homes across the country.
It is the second physical dig to begin as part of that work. Ann O’gorman Graves at Co Cork mum and baby home
Good Shepherd Mother and Baby Home in Cork adult children – Jimmy, 41, Eleanor, 38 and 30-year-old Leanne as well as five grandchildren who she dotes on.
But Ann says she is consumed with thoughts of her first born girl and she cannot rest without finding out what happened.
She bought a plot in a graveyard in Sixmilebridge near where she grew up and wants to bring Evelyn home so she can eventually be buried with her.
She added: “All my life I was brokenhearted, just brokenhearted. If she was alive I would go fetch her, if she’s in an
Garden at the mum and baby home unmarked grave I want to bring her home. I visited the graveyard in Bessborough in 2012.
“You could feel the babies there underfoot. You could feel the evil there.”
Ann will miss her grandchildren’s Confirmation because she “cannot even look at a priest” and while she doesn’t hate the Church she “cannot forgive yet”.
She said: “I was always scared and ashamed but no more.
“I know now I’ve done nothing wrong. I just want to know where Evelyn is.”
news@irishmirror.ie A LUCKY punter has become Ireland’s newest millionaire after scooping a monster jackpot in last night’s Lotto.
The ticketholder matched six numbers and the bonus to take home the incredible €2,497,727 top prize.
The six numbers drawn were 1, 3, 7, 27, 31, 44 and the bonus was 19.
The winning ticket was sold in the north east.
A PUNTER turned 30c into €9,900 by betting on Friday’s Euromillions numbers.
The Cork player’s gamble paid off after using his change to correctly predict four numbers.
Boylesports said: “We cannot congratulate them enough and wish them all the very best.”