Paul saves a customer €10,000
Date Published: 28-Nov-2008
A CITY man is €10,000 richer this week thanks to the eagle eye of a city centre newsagent.One of O’Brien’s Newsagent’s regular customers was checking his Lotto tickets in the Lotto Validating Machine and had scrunched up one of his four tickets when Paul O’Brien stopped him from discarding it.The man, in his 80s and a resident of the city centre, thought he read zero on the machine while Paul thought the customer had won €1,000.“I don’t usually look over people’s shoulder as they are checking their Lotto tickets but this man is a regular and he had a few tickets and my...
