DOLORES HIDES OUT IN AMERICA; Lotto mum eyes up Turkish pub.Byline: By NEIL NEIL Nuclear Electric Insurance Limited NEIL Network Engineering and Integration Lab COTTER cot·ter n. 1. A bolt, wedge, key, or pin inserted through a slot in order to hold parts together. 2. A cotter pin. [Origin unknown. MILLIONAIRE mum Dolores McNamara Dolores McNamara (born January 13, 1960 in Blackpool, England) is the largest individual prizewinner in European lottery history. On July 31, 2005, her €2 quick-pick ticket for the transnational EuroMillions lottery matched the game's five winning numbers 3, 19, 26, 49, and has fled to the US to escape the media frenzy surrounding her massive Lotto win. The 45-year-old Limerick woman is believed to have travelled to the southern states on Saturday as she figures out how to spend her EUR EUR In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the Euro. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. 115million fortune. It is understood that Europe's biggest ever Lotto winner will stay away for a few days with her husband Adrian before deciding where to set up home. Pals in the Turkish resort of Kusadasi, where Dolores has a holiday home, said she plans to spend EUR600,000 buying the local bar there as well as a luxury home on the outskirts of the town. Bruce Dumin, who owns Paddy's Irish Bar, admitted the Garryowen woman had already contacted him with a view to buying his pub. He said: "She made an offer by text. I am thinking about it. "If I had to sell, it would be great to sell to Dolores because she knows the place inside out. "She wants to buy my bar because it's the best in Kusadasi. She wanted to be a partner before - but now she wants to buy it. "All of the Irish people This is a list of famous Irish people. It covers
"She is great to be around. She's the life and soul of the party. Dolores is an amazing woman, so much fun and we have been so lucky to know her for the past four years. "She has been texting me all the time." Friends believe she could also be ready to splash out splash out Noun to spend a lot of money on a treat or luxury: she planned to splash out on a good holiday on a new six-bedroom pad in the Turkish resort. The former factory worker, who spends as much time as possible in Kusadasi, is toying with the idea of setting up home in the popular tourist spot. Agents are scouring the area for a suitable house as the super-rich mum looks to flee Ireland permanently. According to one newspaper she has already handed over the keys of her three-bed Limerick bungalow to her niece, vowing to never return. One neighbour reportedly said: "She gave the keys to her niece the day after her win. She will never live back here again. How could she?" Dolores checked out of Dublin's Red Cow Inn at 3am on Saturday and set off for London on a major shopping spree. Still living out of a suitcase, the mother-of-six booked into the Crown Moran hotel in London and spent a day shopping on Oxford Street. Her family had spent all day Thursday and Friday shopping in Dublin and handed over thousands in shops such as Lifestyle, Hickey's and Dunnes. While in London, she stayed in the EUR550-a-night presidential suite before flying to the US. Dolores and Adrian have six kids, Dawn, 27, Gary, 26, Kim, 24, Kevanne, 21, Dean, 15 and 13-year-old Lee. neil.cotter@ irishmirror.ie CAPTION(S): CHEQUEMATE: Dolores picking up her winnings on Thursday; FRIEND: Bruce Dumin |
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