text: Euromillions win for Newry colleagues who celebrate scooping £250,000 - Belfast Live
  The winning ticket lay on a colleague's desk for a week...
  Michelle OHare, Gareth Tinnelly and members of the Tinnelly Group Lottery Syndicate celebrate their £253,489.30 EuroMillions win at the demolition companys headquarters in Newry
  Workers at a demolition firm in Northern Ireland are celebrating after scooping £250,000 on the Euromillions.
  The 18-strong syndicate from Newry-based Tinnelly Group Ltd won £253,489.30 after matching the five main numbers and one Lucky Star number in the EuroMillions draw on Friday, March 29.
  Each member will pocket more than £14,000.
  At the start of every month, Michelle O'Hare, from Warrenpoint, usually buys the EuroMillions Lucky Dip lines for the syndicate for the entire month's Friday night draws but this time there was a change to the routine.
  Michelle was at a wedding on March 29 and so instead of buying from her local shop, she asked Gareth Tinnelly, a member of the family that owns the business and who is also in the syndicate, to purchase the tickets in her place.
  "I asked the shop assistant to check my tickets as I normally do, but this time he gave a ticket back to me and said that I would need to call The National Lottery as this ticket was for a big amount," she said.
  "Excitedly, I used my phone app to scan the ticket and I literally could not believe my eyes when the figure flashed up on my screen. I really couldn't believe it and asked a few friends and family to check that I wasn't seeing things.
  "Then when I was sure that it was correct, I called The National Lottery who happily confirmed that our ticket was indeed worth just over a quarter of a million pounds. We also won a further £2.70 on the same draw."
  "I wasn't sure how to break the good news to the rest of the team so Gareth and I had a chat on Saturday and we came up with a plan to carry out on Monday morning at work," she said.
  "We told everyone that we'd forgotten to buy the lottery tickets over the weekend but had done a bet in Saturday's Grand National instead. Then we gave everyone an envelope and explained that the person whose envelope contained the name of the winning horse would win £500. In reality, I had placed a note in every envelope to say they had won £14,000.
  "As everyone started opening their envelopes, they soon realised what had happened and it wasn't long before everyone was jumping around, hugging each other, cheering and crying for joy. It was a brilliant moment that I'm sure none of us will ever forget.
  "Then the boss said that we could all go to the bar for the afternoon to celebrate. We really had a smashing time – although there were a few sore heads at work next morning."
  Gareth Tinnelly will be booking a 'special family holiday' while Anne Rogers is also planning a family holiday – and treating herself to a nice shopping trip.
  Michelle added: "We may not all have become overnight millionaires but this win has brought a big ray of sunshine into all of our lives. I'm sure we'll all use our money to do different things but it's a really lovely feeling to share with so many good friends and colleagues.
  "You just never know what's around the corner and we're living proof that good fortune can strike anywhere at any time. Now we're looking forward to our next big win – I have a feeling that this won't be our last."