Taxi driver who scooped €500k on the EuroMillions says win can be traced back to deathbed

Eddie and Antoinette CostelloeCredit: Press 22

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Eddie Costelloe, from Moyross, Limerick, credited his beloved late mother, Helen, for encouraging him. She told him to follow his dream of one day winning the lottery.

He said, 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. The ecstatic father of two said, Seven years it took me and I got it. I’m after getting half a million. He described the EuroMillions Plus draw win as life changing for himself and his wife, Antoinette along with their two children Cian, five, and Megan, nine.

Eddie said, It’s unbelievable, it hasn’t sunk in yet. I always knew it, because my mother said it, when she was on her deathbed, and ever since then I have chased it. warning issued Eddie’s mother’s anniversary, (4-7-13), has also twice previously brought him good luck, netting him €15,000 from two previous lotto draws.

On Friday, he decided to do a EuroMillions Quick Pick at his local Circle K filling station, in Thomondgate, after a long day at work transporting parcels for delivery firm Nightline, a position he took up after his work as a taxi driver dried up during the lockdown. He said, 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.