Lucky double as lottery snapper scoops €17,000

THE old adage that money makes money was true in Limerick over the weekend after it emerged that a friend of Ireland’s latest multi-millionaire pocketed over €16,000 when he sold photographs of Dolores McNamara’s celebrations to a number of tabloid newspapers.

Lucky double as lottery snapper scoops €17,000

Taxi driver Jackie Greer had exclusive photographs of the weekend’s celebrations at the Track Bar in Garryowen, taken just minutes after the mother-of-six discovered she had won €115 million in Europe’s biggest lottery.

The biggest Lotto jackpot has been €7.8m, won by a player in Cork in 1997.

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