Limerick woman scores €33,000 on Winning Streak

Pictured here at the presentation of the winners cheques were from left to right: Marty Whelan, Winning Streak game show co-host; Lesley Ann Danaher the winning player; Jenny Fisher, Head of Legal at the National Lottery and Sinead Kennedy, Winning Streak game show co-host. Picture: Mac Innes

A Co. Limerick woman who recently marked her first wedding anniversary has cause for more celebration after she bagged a tidy €33,000 on the National Lottery Winning Streak game show on RTE One last Saturday.

Originally from Old Mill, near Newcastle West, Co. Limerick, Lesley-Ann Danaher, (29), who lives with her husband Mike in Croagh played a blinder on the show winning €33,000 in cash and a holiday to the romantic city of Venice in Italy worth €3,000

She has worked as a quality control technician in Technopass in Ballina in Co. Tipperary for over a year and a half. Her parents, Tom and Mary, and two sisters, Ide and Vanessa from Old Mill were in the RTE studios to support her on Saturday along with a number of friends from Old Mill and from her college days in NUI Galway.

Lesley-Ann graduated with a degree in Biomedical Science in 2011 and went back to NUIG to do a Master’s in Toxicology. With her winnings from the show, Lesley-Ann is planning home improvements on her new home

A total of €211,000 was won on the game show this week.

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