Yea, its 115.6 EuroMillions: 50-year-old housewife and mother-of-six wins $200 million in one of the biggest lottery wins in history.
115.6 million Euro lottery winner in hiding: Dolores McNamara fled family home in Ireland?
Mrs. Dolores McNamara was in hiding last night after celebrating her once-in-a-lifetime lottery win followed by a torrent of media interest.
She fled her family home in County Limerick, Ireland, at the weekend following last Friday, the day of lucky draw.
Dolores was sitting in her local pub at Garryowen on Friday night when the winning numbers of the EuroMillions lottery appeared on television.
Her 15-year-old son Dean, 15, said: "When the numbers dropped mum fell in to a state of shock. It took a while for her friends to convince her she had won the jackpot, she couldn't believe it."
Ms McNamara was in that state about 10 mins, then she broke into tears. Then she went to the local police station and asked to keep the winning ticket until she could collect her prize after the Irish bank holiday on Tuesday. After the police refused, a local bank manager was pulled out of bed to take responsibility of the wining ticket and put it in a bank vault.
Shortly after the ticker was locket, Dolores started a champagne celebration at her local bar.
Yesterday, Ms McNamara had left her white terraced bungalow and gone into hiding. Ms McNamara and her bricklayer husband Adrian have six children - Dawn, 28, Kim, 22 and Kevan, 20, Gary, 26, Dean, 15, and Lee, 13.
Neighbours said the housewife was staying in a nearby hotel to escape intense media interest, though drinkers at her local claimed she had flown out of the country. Her childhood friend, Geraldine Donohoe, said she had been 'devastated' by the win.
"She is a lovely person. She married and she raised a lovely family. She more than deserved what she got," she said.
A taxi-driver who was in the pub when she won, said: "She had been worried about buying school uniforms for her children ... she has nothing to worry about now.
"She just kept repeating, 'I can't believe it!' When it finally hit she just started crying. The atmosphere was just electric. Everybody got on their mobile phones and started to spread the news."
