Staff drink to €10m winner

THE champagne corks were popped and the excited staff at the Statoil service station in Tuam were as bubbly as the drink yesterday as they toasted to a customer who won more than €10 million in a ticket bought there in the mid-week Lotto.

“I hope it brings happiness to whoever won it and we are as excited ourselves here in the shop as if we were the winners,” said Vera Murphy, assistant manager.

Customers were congratulating staff at the filling station and shop on the busy N17 route between Sligo and Claregalway.