€7m Lotto winners save local playschool

A golden-hearted Cork couple who scooped a €7m fortune on the Lotto, have donated €50,000 from their windfall to save a community playschool from closure.

Pat Broderick from Kinsale became the country’s wealthiest postman just over 10 months ago when his lucky numbers made him an overnight multi-millionaire.

Up to then his wife Mary, 45, had spearheaded a challenging campaign to secure the future of the seaside town’s community playschool, which was facing closure because two primary schools on whose grounds the facility was located were in the process of amalgamating and needed the space.