Related Stories

• Nursing Homes Week celebrated by Padre Pio Rest Home, Cappoquin
  
  
• Fermoy training to focus on young unemployed
  
  
• Ballyhooly playground due for completion – a call for final donations
  
  
• Lismore Heritage Centre being revamped to the tune of €300k
  
  
• Renovated community centre opened in Knocklong
  
  
• World Suicide Awareness Day Remembrance Hour – for those bereaved by suicide
  
  
• Tipperary Peace Convention awards
  
  
• Concerns over increase of ‘non-authorised’ collection and recycling of WEEE in Cork
  
  
• Tallow Horse Fair – traders and crowds strong for 2013 event
  
  
• Munster Rugby player James Coughlan teams up with Blackwater Motors
  
  
• CBS Primary Mitchelstown pupils embrace new school term
  
  
• All-Ireland senior hurling final preview by Paddy Ryan – All-Ireland with a difference
  
  

Gus Shanahan and John ‘Chelsea’ Condon, pictured in Tony’s shop, Kilworth on Tuesday, showing the results of the two local club lottos (GAA and soccer) that drew the same four numbers last week. Photo: Ellen Lynch

No-one seems to know quite what the odds are of it happening but everyone is agreed they're huge. Two popular weekly fundraising lotteries run in Kilworth each week, one organised by Kilworth Celtic Soccer Club, the other by Kilworth GAA Club. Last week, to the amazement of those who sell tickets for both, the same four numbers were drawn out in both club's lottos.

The numbers were 7,8,13 and 17. Club members pondered the odds of it happening. Certainly John Condon and Gus Shanahan who sell tickets for the clubs can't recall it ever happening before. Nor can Tony Dalton of O'Flynn's shop in the village, who also sells the lotto tickets for both clubs.

In any event the numbers didn't prove lucky in either case as there were no winners. The GAA jackpot currently stands at €2,200 while the soccer club's is €3,150.

blog comments powered by Disqus