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Wednesday, 28th November, 2012. Vol. 5, Issue 48 • 63 Clanbrassil Street, Dundalk, Co. Louth. Tel: 042 9320888. Fax: 042 9329676. Email: editorial@dundalkleader.com; advertising@dundalkleader.com
Happy Christmas for new millionaire By Paul Byrne and Niamh Kirk
ONE lucky punter is certain to celebrate a Happy Christmas after scooping to Lotto jackpot over the weekend. Dundalk can welcome a new millionare after Saturday’s winning lotto ticket of €3.59 million was sold in Carroll’s News Agents, Longwalk SC. The ticket, a €4 quickpick with lotto plus, was bought in the newsagents on Friday November 23 but as yet the identity of the winner is unknown. By the time we went to print it had not yet been claimed. Sinead McCreesh who works in the newsagents says they have absolutely no idea who might have
bought the winning ticket as Friday is their busiest day in the shop and there would have been a lot of lotto tickets sold. “We’re delighted to have sold the winning ticket here in the shop and we would all like to wish the winner well and hopefully they will enjoy their big win. We’ve never sold a winning ticket here before so it’s nice to be part of all the excitement” said Sinead. This is the second big lotto win in Dundalk after someone scooped the €2 million jackpot in July. Since the lotto began in 1988 around €54 million has been won in the county. See page 12
Rock girls book date with Louis Walsh
A group of Blackrock dancers proved that they really have the X Factor as they qualified for the final of the annual School Stars competition. In front of a packed house at the TLT Theatre, the seven young girls qualified for the final and their reward is a date with none other than XFactor Judge Louis Walsh on Tuesday December 4. Having started out with over 3,000 competitors in early auditions held in October, the Blackrock girls, known as “MEGASTARS”, have made it through to the final, competing against National Schools from Dublin, Meath, Louth and Monaghan. The MEGASTARS dance troupe now have their opportunity to win the competition outright and are
Back row l-r: Sadhbh Lynch, Una Kinney, Bi Carroll, Clodagh Lynch; front: Aoibhinn O’Grady, Naoise Stewart, Leah Arrowsmith.
guaranteed at the very least to make a big impression on music impresario Louis
Walsh. The standard of competitors that have qualified Continued on Page 20