‘I was always sure I was going to win,’ says Ger

Ger Murphy always felt it was only a matter of time before he won the National Lottery and he was right — it just took 25 years of playing the same numbers.

“I was always sure I was going to win. Even my mother said I was going to win one day”, said the ecstatic Co Mayo carpenter when he collected his cheque for €6.38m at the National Lottery’s headquarters in Dublin yesterday.

Ger had been playing the same numbers all his life — family birthdays and anniversaries.