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Plans for city growth WE’VE €500,000 REASONS TO CHEER HAPPY TUESDAY Jump to 235,000 residents
CORK City Council has unveiled its proposal for a new city region, expanding its boundary to include Ballincollig, Carrigaline, Blarney, Carrigtwohill and Cork Airport. Celebrating their €500,000 win at Lotto HQ are Tim O’Regan, spokesperson for the group, with Lee O’Riordan; John Duff; Donncha Collins; Keith Hegarty; Rob English; Damien Budden; Chris Sutton; Adrian Keane; Michael Wallace; Alex Casey and Hugh Keating. Picture: MacInnes WEDDINGS, home improvements and home deposits is how 20 lucky Janssen workers plan to spend their lotto winnings. The syndicate of Janssen Bio’s Maintenance Department workers, based in Ringaskiddy, collected their €500,000 EuroMillions winnings yesterday from Lotto headquarters, each taking home €25,000 from last week’s draw. Aged between 31 and 47, 16 of the group - who have done the lotto weekly since
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■ Audrey Ellard Walsh 2007 - are married with young families and two are engaged to be married, with one wedding planned for next year. The group collectively have 28 children, with a few babies on the way. “We couldn’t be happier about the win,” said Tim O’Regan on behalf of the group. “We’ve played EuroMillions every week but only began to play for the Tuesday draw
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as well as the Friday draw just two months ago. “And wasn’t Tuesday our lucky day! Around the same time, a new person joined the group – Hugh Keating– some of the team are referring to him as our lucky charm! Before Hugh joined the most we’d each won in the year would be about €40. Now we’ve won €25,000 each!” said Tim. They bought their €96 Quick Pick MultiDraw ticket in SuperValu Carrigaline.
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■ Alan Healy g aline. However, the city council’s proposal is in direct conflict with the proposal from Cork County Council, which is proposing a single amalgamated super council covering the entire county with a population of 500,000. The committee which is examining the issue will make a recommendation to Minister Alan Kelly in September. ■ Continued on page 2.
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In an updated submission to the boundary committee deciding the matter, the City C o u n c i l s a i d i t s p ro p o s a l would see the population of the city increase from 119,000 to 235,000. It would also increase the number of elected city councillors from 31 to 36. Instead of the current six city wards there would be five districts - Ballincollig/Blarney, City Centre, Glanmire/ Carrigtwohill, Bishopstown/ Waterfall, and Douglas/Carri-
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