Glin club lottery dispute ‘could divide village’

A dispute over a soccer club lottery ticket has the potential to divide a rural community, ruin friendships, and put the club in financial danger, a judge warned yesterday.

Michael Wallace, a farmer from Tullyleague, Glin, Co Limerick, and a supporter of Glin Rovers club, claimed at Limerick Circuit Court that he bought three tickets, for €2 each, for the club lottery draw on February 9, 2013, in Barrett’s pub.

The draw was to be held three days later and the tickets collected from all of its agents beforehand. The jackpot was to be €12,600, Michael Purtill, counsel for Mr Wallace, said that, for some reason, Conor Sheehan, in his capacity as club chairman, had not ensured all tickets were collected.