By Kim O'Leary
One Kildare man was quite literally on a winning streak at the weekend after winning €36,000 in prizes on the National Lottery Winning Streak game show on behalf of his wife-a nice well deserved early Christmas present for this family.
No stranger to a good deed, dedicated volunteer and truck driver, Eddie O’Brien, from the Kildare side of Enfield, made the ultimate sacrifice last Saturday (18 November) by playing a blinder on the Winning Streak game show on RTE One on behalf of his wife Bridget, winning her a total of €36,000 in prizes!
Enfield’s Eddie relished his appearance on Winning Streak and was more than happy to have done so well for Bridget, whose name was originally pulled out of the drum last Saturday week. Eddie also won a holiday, which the happy couple will go on, to the beautiful Salzburg in Austria, worth €3,000. and the other €33,000 will do well for some spending money in the run up to Christmas.
Meanwhile, Bridget plans on putting some of the new-found funds to home improvements and towards “giving a great Christmas” to their children and four grandchildren. The 62-year-old and his wife Bridget have two children, John and Mary, and four grandchildren – two of whom; Dylan and Shane, were in the audience cheering Eddie on Saturday, while Saoirse and David were excitedly glued to the TV watching from home.
Nice-guy Eddie has been a truck driver for the past 39 years, transporting animals around for veterinarian organisation, Co-Operative Animal Health Transportation.
His real passion in life is volunteering and helping others. He has been volunteering in his local credit union in Enfield, where he his chair of the credit committee, for the past 21 years, and he has also volunteered and fundraised for a charity called the Lourdes Kindness Group which raises much needed funds for sick children and people, who wouldn’t have the means, to go to Lourdes, for many years.
Winning Streak scratch cards offer a range of great instant cash prizes plus a 3-star prize, which gives players the opportunity to enter a draw to appear on the gameshow. Five players are selected to appear on the Winning Streak TV Gameshow and win up to €500,000 instantly on the Grand Prize Wheel.
The Winning Streak TV Gameshow is based solely on chance and there is no skill involved. To enter, players must submit a 3-star ticket in one of the special 3-star envelopes, which are available from all National Lottery Retail Sales Agents.
On the Thursday preceding the gameshow, one hundred 3-star entries are drawn randomly in a preliminary draw that takes place under strict security controls in National Lottery offices.
For more information visit www.lottery.ie
If you have a story or want to send photos or videos to us please contact the KildareNow editorial team. via our Facebook, via our email at content@kildarenow.com or on 045 409350 during office hours.