A Derry man has scooped
more than £1.6m in the National Lottery.
But there will be no champagne corks popping for
60-year old Denis Doherty and his wife Patricia - as
they are both teetotal.
Mr. Doherty, a retired Du Pont worker who lives in
the Waterside, said he picked the lucky numbers
because a child was crying in his local shop when he
was in the queue.
"I didn't want to hold things up so I just wrote
down the first numbers that came into my head," he
said.
The numbers were 16, 22, 28, 30, 33, 35 - which won
him a total of £1,655,605 - a third share of last
Saturday's Lotto jackpot.
"Had I been able to take more time to think I have
no doubt I would have selected some different
numbers.
"None of the numbers had any personal connections
like birthdays or anniversaries and had I remembered
the date was 07/07/07 I might have been tempted to
put in a 7," he said. The Dohertys say they have no
plans to move from their home.
"We're not going to rush into anything. We will sit
back, relax and take it in. Neither of us drinks at
all - so there won't be any champagne," he told the
BBC.
Mr. Doherty bought his ticket at the Vivo
Supermarket in Trench Road. |
