Staff ’refused to believe’ they had won the lotto

The holder of a Lotto ticket that scooped a whopping €5m for a call centre syndicate has revealed his co-workers refused to believe they had won the fortune.

Donegal man James Bradley is renowned as a practical joker. So when he tried to phone his co-workers at Forward Emphasis International to say they had won Wednesday night’s Lotto, nobody believed him.

In fact, it took him a number of hours to convince the others they were in the money and had scooped €375,000 each.