Lucky Cork ladies strike gold on Winning Streak wheel
TWO lucky ladies from North Cork enjoyed their spin back down from the capital last weekend after winning more than €90,000 between them courtesy of the National Lottery.
The 2019/2020 season of the Winning Streak drew to a close with ten players taking part in two separate game shows, which paid out more than €400,000 in cash prizes.
One of the biggest individual winners was Mallow woman Margaret Cafferkey who spun the wheel on behalf of her brother Denny Hawe – scooping a cool €61,000 in prizes, including an electric car worth €25,000.
A huge fan of the show, Margaret admitted she was “shocked and excited” upon leaning that her brother’s name had been selected to go on the show. She was more than happy to do her brother a ‘good turn’, while Denny was equally happy to watch his sister from the sidelines at the RTE studio in Dublin.
Margaret Cafferkey stepped in for her brother Denny at Winning Streak and was more than happy to do her brother a good turn. She is a huge fan of the show and upon learning
her brother’s name was one of the final five to be selected, she was a mix of shocked and excited at the same time. While Denny didn’t take to the Winning Streak stage, he was more than happy to watch his sister from the sidelines at RTE studios.
Meanwhile, Caroline O’Callaghan from Kildinan finally got to appear
on the show on behalf of her mother Patricia Barry from Glenville - after a six month wait.
Caroline was due to have appeared on Winning Streak on March 21. However, the show was postponed until last week following the Government imposed Covid-19 restrictions.
Ironically, it was the second time
that she had appeared on the show for her mother after Patricia’s name was drawn out of the Winning Streak drum back in 2014. On that occasion she went home with €34,000 and last Saturday Caroline and Patricia continued their own personal ‘winning streak’ by winning another €32,000 in cash.
Caroline, who is married with two children of her own, said had a long standing agreement with her mother that in the event of Patricia’s name being called out she would go on the show in her place.
“It was a pact I never thought I would ever have to make good on – let alone do it twice,” she said.