'Everybody needs to buy their tickets here!' After two shops in sleepy Duleek sell jackpot-winning lottery tickets in six months, could it be the luckiest village in Ireland?
They won €175m from the EuroMillions in 2019 - the biggest pay-out in Irish National Lottery history.Something in the water?
He says the historical village, which is home to about 4,000 people, has grown a lot in the past few years and people are very friendly.Mr Coleman has also struck lucky over the years as part of a local syndicate that recently shared a €20,000 win among its 10 members."Anyone that has won it has been very practical with it, they haven't gone wild with it.
St Patrick is said to have established a bishopric in the village around 450 AD, which he placed in the care of St Cianán. The ruins of St Mary's Abbey medieval monastery, built in the 12th Century, are listed as a national monument of importance.Image caption,Megan McManus and Brooke Errles have returned to Duleek to visit family, having spent the past few years travelling across Greece, France, Spain and Italy."It's just a bit mad for such a small village for people winning the lotto.As much as they'd welcome a lottery win, both agree there are other ways to define what being lucky means.
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