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4th October 2017
04:37pm BST

He said:
"With the week we’ve both had, it still doesn’t feel real. "We’ve had a life-changing few days so we were feeling incredibly lucky as we bought the scratch card yesterday [Tuesday] evening. "We saw the €25,000 as we scratched but we assumed we must have made a mistake!”The lucky couple are planning to spend their winnings getting ready for the arrival of their new child early next year. But there was one tricky part to the couple's big prize, as Tom - who began his new job on Monday - had to ring his boss and ask for time off to collect the sum. He added:
“I only started my new job on Monday so I had to make the difficult call to my boss to ask for time off today. "As soon as he heard that I had to visit the National Lottery, he was more than happy to give me a few hours off!”Photos via McInnes Photography.
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