Christmas comes early for our lucky winner

What happens when your daughter enters a competition in your name without telling you?

You might well get annoyed, but should you happen to win that prize — then you might also get a bit of fright. A delightful fright.

That’s what happened to Breda Long of Dublin Hill, Cork, last week when the Examiner Irish Examiner phoned to say she had’s won a Christmas makeover worth €1,500 from Hanley’s — Cork’s largest Christmas shop.