One lucky Irish person became away nearly €94 million better off yesterday after winning a share of the Euromillions jackpot, and there is speculation it could be somebody with links to Anglo.
The jackpot yesterday stood at just shy of €184 million and was shared by two individuals, one on Belgium and the other in Ireland. The huge winnings marks Ireland’s biggest winner since Dolores McNamara scooped €115 million in 2005, and speculation is intense as to where the winning ticket was sold.
Late last night the Galway Advertiser Twitter account was quick off the mark to suggest that the winner was in fact John Bowe, the former executive of Anglo Irish bank, who has been very much in the public domain this week since the release of recorded phone conversations with colleagues of the disgraced bank in 2008 over the bank guarantee.
Breaking news — Anglo’s John Bowe has won the 187 mill on the Lotto. The winning numbers, well, he just picked them out of his arse.
— Galway Advertiser (@galwayad) June 25, 2013
Bowe has gone on record to say that he did not deliberately mislead the Central Bank, but he along with David Drumm and Peter Fitzgerald have come in for huge criticism for their actions and blase attitude during the banking crisis.
The logic on the part of the Galway Advertiser seems pretty sound to us!
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