Taxi Driver Lands EuroMillions Win To Achieve Seven-Year Goal
Last Updated: Monday 3rd August 2020, 10:23 am
A man from Limerick is ready to rent out his taxi after winning the EuroMillions Plus jackpot. The lucky player had set his sights on a big lottery win seven years ago just before his mother died, and Friday night’s €500,000 payday has left him feeling ‘on top of the world’.
Eddie Costelloe, from Moyross, matched the numbers 11, 12, 15, 32 and 44 in the EuroMillions Plus draw on Friday 31st July after buying a ticket at his local Circle K filling station in Thomondgate.
He regularly plays numbers linked to important dates, but on this occasion he bought a Quick Pick after a long day at work as a driver for a delivery firm. When he saw that his numbers had come up, his first thoughts were for his mum Helen, who passed away in 2013.
Eddie explained: “On my mother’s deathbed, I said to her ‘Mam, I’m going to win the lotto one of these days’, and she said ‘son, you will’, and I’ve been chasing this for a long time. Seven years it took me, and I got it.”
The father of two had only taken up his position with the delivery firm because he was not getting as much work as normal in his regular job as a taxi driver. Now that he has pocketed €500,000, he has no intention of going back to his taxi work.
He said: “I’m top of the world, top of the world. We are sorted for life. I’m going to rent out my taxi because I don’t want to be listening to drunk people anymore - I’m finished, I’m done.”
Although he is done with his taxi work, Eddie and his wife Antoinette, a care worker, are not yet ready to retire. “It’s not going to (stop) me from working, because it’s not in me to sit around. I’ll always work,” he insisted.
Eddie is looking forward to purchasing a new van for work, while Antoinette is ‘going to pick her new car, whatever she wants’. They are also planning to buy their house and a holiday home in Lanzarote, while Eddie is thinking about getting a season ticket to watch his beloved Liverpool.
How EuroMillion Plus Works
EuroMillions Plus is an additional game which costs an extra €1 per line and gives you the chance to win up to €500,000. If you opt in, your five main EuroMillions numbers are entered into a separate draw on the same night as the main EuroMillions game.
You have to match all five winning numbers to bank the jackpot, but the top prize is a fixed amount per winner so you receive €500,000 even if there are multiple players who get them all right. The odds of winning the jackpot are far greater than the odds there are no Lucky Stars in this draw.of winning the main EuroMillions jackpot because
You can also pick up prizes for matching three or four of the EuroMillions Plus numbers. The results are announced shortly after the main draws take place on Tuesday and Friday evenings.
