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A CLARE lottery player who won €500,000 on a scratch card has admitted they didn’t realise at first just how much they won. “When I first scratched off the panels, I thought that I had won €5,000 which I was absolutely delighted with,” the winner admitted. “And then I looked at it again and thought it was €50,000. It wasn’t until I looked at it for a third time shortly after that I realized it was €500,000. “I was in total shock and probably sat there looking at the scratch card in disbelief for about five minutes.” The winner is going to think carefully about what to do before making any big plans. “I won’t be rushing out to spend it just yet. I am going to take my time and plan what we should do – I never expected to win an amount like this so as you can imagine, I’m still taking the news in. It’s all quite …
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