Two Kildare women win a whopping €87,000 on Winning Streak at the weekend

A Kildare woman has won €32,000 after appearing on the National Lottery Winning Streak game show on RTE One last weekend (Saturday 5th January 2019) almost 19 years after she first appeared on the show.

Another Kildare woman also won a whopping €55,000 on the show.

Appearing on Winning Streak is a once-in-a-lifetime event for most people but Rosemary O’Brien, from Coill Dubh in Naas, is bucking that trend. In April 2000, Rosemary took to the Winning Streak stage with Mike Murphy to win £9,500. Second time round, Rosemary won herself a cool €32,000 in cash from the show, broadcast on RTÉ One.

And was all about the Lily Whites on Winning Streak this week as a second Kildare woman, Bernadette Carey from Newbridge, scooped a tidy €55,000 in prizes, meaning that both Kildare women took a total of €87,000 from the show.

Lucky Rosemary admitted to being speechless after being pulled out of the drum for the second time. When she was last on the show Rosemary had been married to Packey for two years. Now the couple are together 20 years and have three sons Jamie (17), Josh (14) and Cian (9) who all cheered her on from the RTE audience.

There is great excitement in her family about making the trip to RTE and she was supported by her family, including her three siblings: John, Mag and Sarah, as well as other friends and family members.

While most of her supporters came from Kildare, her brother John travelled home all the way from New York with his two children Aine and Suzanne to cheer on Rosemary. John owns a building contractors in Cold Springs, New York called Coill Dubh Contractors so he proudly flies the Kildare flag even though he has been living abroad for many years.

Rosemary started work two months ago for industrial security company (which makes security gates and doors for many businesses) Elite Tech Precision, based in Naas. With her winnings from the show, this time Rosemary isn’t sure what she will do but is planning a nice family holiday.

Meanwhile the second Kildare woman in the Winning Streak line-up, Bernadette Carey from Newbridge.

Bernadette’s son David watched on the RTE player from Berlin in Germany where he is based with his wife Tina and their daughter Lucy. The trio were home for Christmas but went back before the New Year.

In her spare time Bernadette is a bit of a green fingers and is proud of her garden which is always standing to attention. She is also a choir singer and has been part of the Curragh Choir for the past 10 years. They regularly sing at church and have had a busy Christmas season singing at various masses.

The National Lottery game show, co-presented by Marty Whelan and Sinead Kennedy, features some perennial favorite games as well but also brand new games including Play or Pay, Roll for Riches, WinFall and Electric Dream – where one player will win an electric car worth €25,000.

A brand new-look Winning Streak scratch card is available in the 5,900 National Lottery retailers all over the country, where as well as the chance to appear on the Winning Streak TV game show if you get three stars, players will also be in with a chance to win some great cash prizes up to €5,000. The odds for those who purchase a Winning Streak to win is 1 in 1.76 to win a cash or three star prize. Players can also send their scratch card stubs into the National Lottery where each week, on the show, a player will be drawn as the winner of a Luxury Cruise for two valued at €5,000.

Nearly 30 cent in every €1 spent on National Lottery games go back to Good Causes in the areas of sport, youth, health, welfare, education, arts and heritage.

In total more than €5.4 billion has been raised for Good Causes since the National Lottery was established 31 years ago.

In 2018 alone, the National Lottery raised over €227 million for such good causes.