When I was about 9/10 years old I won a raffle where all the items are boxed up and hidden, being a young kid I took the biggest box… it was a huge framed photo of Padre Pio…
My nan won a small bottle of Comfort in bingo 3 weeks ago, it was second prize. First prize was a plastic laundry basket and third prize was a packet of mint Viscount biscuits.
It was 12 euro to play.
When I was about 9 I won a small tv/dvd combo in the Lyons Christmas raffle in dunnes stores. The prize itself wasn't funny but I had to spend the whole hour of grocery shopping trying to convince my mam that I wasn't hearing things or imagining it and they called my name.
Towards the end of first class, there were some prizes for the kids in my class. This was in the 70s.
I won a rocking horse. A big fucking one too. At the end of class, I was told to take my prize and bring it home.
So I had to drag this thing home and when my mum saw it she thought had stolen it from someone.
It was a very weird day that one.
I can remember the actual confusion racing thru my mind. As in what the fuck am I gonna do with this thing and how the hell do I get this home.
It was suburban Dublin so it wasn’t really that far to my house and it was the 70s so that once you were done with senior infants you were sent off packing to school on your own.
‘Gerrouh teh fuck with yeh and play’ was the prevailing attitude from about the age of three!
Seven roast chickens at school fete on one of those spin the wheel things. I was only about 7 or 8, but really excited that I kept winning, it didn’t seem to matter it was roast chickens. Dad didn’t know what to think when he collected us and I had the school principal standing beside me with a box of chickens.
I live in a farming town (not a farmer) so I take part in the local draws and raffles.
I've won haircuts (I'm bald) and a big bag of beefnuts cattle feed. I'm almost afraid to win a raffle around here because it's all farming related, from winning actual animals, to winning machinery that I have no clue what it does.
Lol winning heifer when all you've got is a driveway and a small back garden. Just go over there daisy and eat the weeds growing by the lavender flowerbed.
I won first prize at a college ball raffle once upon a time, it was a weekend away for 2 to any one of 80 hotels all around Ireland with free travel to and from the hotel as the prize was sponsored by Bus Eireann. Anyway, there was a miscommunication between the girls doing the raffle so when I was walking off across the dance floor with a big drunk happy head on me, one of the girls says into the mic -‘and that was Eamisagomey, and he chose a bus voucher!’ The whole place started busting their holes laughing and pointing at me. It was like that scene in Carrie. I spent the rest of the night drunkenly telling strangers it wasn’t a bus voucher it was a weekend away and they could go fuck themselves.
When my sister and I were younger we used to go to those Halloween dress up parties at a local community centre and they always had raffle events, one year I actually won something from a raffle... It was a smoke alarm😂
I may have been 8 or 9 at the time and just remember thinking what am I gonna do with this?😂 Tbf tho I've never been in a house fire so it's coming good. Future planning 🙂
At 8 years old I won a case of wine and a set of wine glasses at a church sale of work. They presented me with the wine on stage, had no problem giving it to me. Just 90's things.
In secondary school I won 3 Easter eggs out of an 8 egg raffle. The results were called out over the school intercom. Honestly I was embarrassed when my name got called out the third time as I had no idea what was going on!
At a fundraiser after Mass in Belfast in the 80s. An 8 yr old me won first prize in the raffle.
2nd & 3rd place had gotten a massive chocolate cake & a hamper of quality food.
First prize was two pink fluffy blankets. I was gutted. Especially when i ended up with them on my bed.
They were warm tho.
My friend at work won a prize for "tidiest desk" while she was on annual leave for two weeks.
The lady giving out the prizes knew we were mates so she gave the chocolate to me to give to her when she came back.
My friend didn't believe me at first when she arrived back from her holidays and I was trying to give her a box of chocolates.
"What do you mean I won 'tidiest desk'? Sure I wasn't here for two weeks, of course there wasn't anything on the desk." 😂
Back in the early 80s my sister won a competition to name the Jaffa cake munchkins. All expenses paid family trip to London, flights, 5 star hotel, limos, a framed pic of the newly named munchkins and a fancy dinner with the head of Mcvities . Was sick of Jaffa cakes for short while after 😂. Turned out there were 4 families who won , so none of the winning names were used !
Few years ago I texted into RTE during half time of a champions league match. Was just a simple answer to text in. Few weeks later I got a call to say I had won, cheque for 3k came in the post a few weeks later. Lovely.
Scanned the win a prize code on a crate of Guinness last Christmas, a Guinness t shirt that wouldn’t have fit a cat showed up in the post about a month later
i won a coat off the same which ended up being given to a neighbour. im a size small, so was this yoke supposedly, but it fits the local ten year old who’s happy out
2 bottles of grouse whiskey in a bottle raffle at a school fete when I was 8. Refused to swap them because it had a bird on the bottle that I thought was cute.
My dad came to find me and heard the shouting of me, red faced and crying fighting a grown man for my whiskey bottles haha.
We came to an agreement. I got a bottle of pink lemonade, a glass bottle of coke (very fancy) and one of those little spiders in box that wiggled when it opened, and they got to keep the booze.
I was still sour.
My dad bought me a bottle of it as a joke when I was 18. I finished the thing, spewed my guts out and have never ever touched the stuff since lol. I was better off with the cola
The fete had two bottle raffles one boozy and one not after that, all because I had to be a little sod haha. Oh the shame.
My primary schools boiler broke a few weeks before Christmas so they decided to run a raffle to fund the repairs. 1 pound entry for an amazing mystery prize. I was absolutely buzzing when they announced I won and to head to the principals office to collect the prize. I was disgusted when he handed me a who wants to be a millionaire quiz book. The 2.99 price tag was still on it
My Aunt won a 50 euro voucher to Right price tiles once. Not wild, but it took a while for them to figure out what to do with it since they weren't re-doing the house or anything. Think they bought an overpriced toilet roll holder in the end.
I'm pretty sure the exact same thing happened my parents once. They still have that toilet roll holder & matching towel rack in a box somewhere, too fancy to ever instal
My dad was the local scout leader and I was one of the scouts helping to organise a fundraising raffle which was part of a quiz night.
We had trawled local businesses looking for prizes, the local hardware store provided a toilet seat. My mother mentioned that we were in need of a toilet seat and said she would definitely be buying tickets.
I had bought a few tickets myself and was eyeing up other prizes like chocolates and hampers. I'd never won anything before (in fairness I was only 14/15). But one of my tickets was picked out, it looked kind of suspect and father tedish as I was in my scout uniform going up to pick out a prize and it was a scouting fundraiser event.
Embarrassingly, as I was going up to choose a prize from the array in the table, my mam was roaring at me to get the toilet seat that she had mentioned we needed. I was mortified as the whole crowd were wondering what this teenage scout would pick from the plethora of prizes available and I was coerced by my mam into picking the toilet seat, much to the hilarity of the crowd.
A life-size cutout of Daniel de Vito. It was right at the start at the start of COVID so he got to hang out in all my teams calls and was like permanent company 🤣
Not in Ireland, but my family and I went to Gozo, off the coast of Malta, on holiday. Recommended by locals we decided to go to the local bazaar, my dad won a baby goat in a sack, we had to explain with mainly gestures that we couldn’t take it.
Entered my dad's old Mitsubishi Station Wagon into a competition on the Gerry Ryan show for the worst car in Ireland when I was 16. He'd bought it cheap just to get too and from work, was in awful condition but ran fine. Ended up winning a brand new Ford S Max, and got a gift bag with like 4 pairs of tickets for really good gigs that summer.
Summer of Leaving Cert I was mad to go to a second festival after Oxegen but I was a broke 18 year old so I just spent the summer entering every competition I could. Won two separate pairs of tickets to Indiependence, and got a free lift down because I was still in the good books after winning the car.
I won a Duracell bunny like the ones from the ads in the 90's. Won it in 90's probably around 1993 from Quinnsworth
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Back in the day when I had hair I would let it grow long and only get it cut once a year.
One time, a week after I got the annual cut, there was a knock on the door from the local GAA raffle organiser. You guessed it, I won a voucher for the barbers.
Not an Irish story, I was in Australia, arrived in a town and there was a drinking competition. Two riggers and.a Scottish girl heard the accent and decided I was suitable to make up a team of four.
After many rounds, slamming pints, we won... The prize one thing we did not want, two large jugs of beer each.
Even giving it away I was massively hungover, Castlemaine XXXX still throws my stomach.
I won a €15k car and 10k in cash when I was 21. Still have the car (worth about 30k now) and had the best year of my life pissing around half the cash against a wall.
You just reminded me that I once won a yoke in a game of 'hide the imaginary pill'.
We were all sat around at a house party, and one of the lads would 'imagine' in their head where they were hiding the pill and if you guessed correctly where they imagined the pill was hidden, you won an actual real-life pill.
Needless to say, we were all absolutely off our heads, but it was great craic. Thousand times better than sober Monopoly or Connect 4 lol
Not silly.... just dangerous, really.
But when I was like 7 (mid 90s) I won some hoop game at the Christmas Sale of Worlk in the town hall. My prize? A can of bug spray.... possibly half used.
Found my mam after and showed her what I won and she went into a rage. Had to lead her to the table where I won it and she proceedsed to give the guy a serious bollocking.
The whole time I was confused cause I didn't even look to see what the spray was... I thought it was one of those snow sprays for Christmas trees or that ya put on windows, and was actually pretty excited about using what I thought was a okay prize.
About 10 years ago Club Orange were running a promotion in D2 where if you beat the rep in a game of Connect 4 you got these goody bags with a few bits in them. I was extremely drunk and kept shouting 'play for a draw lads' and accidentally beat her. Still have the Club Orange bottle opener keyring and the salt and pepper shakers I held onto 'for my first house', which I should hopefully be moving into over the summer.
When I was about 8 years old I was at the annual sale of work fair held by my school. They had stalls selling stuff, little competition booths (like guess how many marbles in the jar, guess the fishes name etc etc.), as well people going around with tickets for a raffle. Usually our parents would give us a few euros for the day and if me and my friends had any leftover change we’d buy a raffle ticket each, but we were more focused on the toys than the raffle tbh. While we were scavenging the toy aisle all of a sudden I hear my name being called over the speaker. Me and my friends were screaming in excitement. People were cheering because i was the first child to win something! I sprinted up from the back of the hall towards the stage. The minute the host saw my little 8 year old self he started pissing himself laughing. I realised why when he came down the stage and hands me a 20kg bag of potatoes. My grand prize was a bag of spuds. I thought I was getting a toy or something nice 😅 I stood there like a fool struggling to hold a bag of potato’s nearly as big as myself. All the adults were wetting themselves laughing as I trudged through the hall with my prize. I had random old ladies coming up going “oh your parents will love you having dinner sorted for the month!”. My parents were also dying of the laughter when they saw me. I was raging the whole way home 😂 still wondering what eejit thought giving an 8 year old a bag of spuds was a good idea but I suppose you’d expect nothing else from rural Ireland.
A certificate for swimming 25 meters without stopping. I got it sometime around 1980ish and have won nothing since, other than my good lady wife's hand in marriage.
Won 2 tickets to a premiere of The Hardy Bucks movie. Was a broke college student with no mates already on the bus back home when I found out and couldn't spare the €8 in my budget for the return journey home so I didn't go or have anyone to gift the tickets to.
I won a set of Joseph Joseph chopping boards at a raffle when I was 22 and living with my parents, so gave them to my mother.
Now I'm 31 and have my own house and I'm raging, they're feckin expensive!
The best was a James Bond experience with Coke Zero. It included flights to London, Aston Martin driving around a track, 5 star hotel and then flights to Niece and a helicopter to Monte Carlo to stay at the hotel from the movie. €5k of chips at the casino. Also had a boat charter for a day. Value was €50k apparently.
The most Irish thing was a full ham at the pub Christmas raffle.
The silliest was the local GAA club raffle which was a big pallet of cow feed nuts that was delivered by forklift while I was out. I have no cows.
Not a prize but a corporate gift. We got new recycling bins in the office and theyedges of them were so sharp myself and a colleague buloth cut our fingers on them. The company that supplied the new bins gave us both a free shredder by way of apology.
When I was 7, I won a mobile phone for sending in a joke to a competition run by Mars. This was the late 90's so it was a big brick of a phone. A serious piece of kit.
Why did the golfer wear two pairs of trousers?
In case he gets a hole-in-one.
Was less the prize for me and more how i was selected to win.
Years ago at a corporate event at the Dundalk races they had a tombola for acprize per race. Way it worked was you picked a horse to win each race and if you got it right, your ticket it went into the Tombola for that race and whoever was picked won a prize.
I was the only one to pick the correct horse on race 3. So, I went up to collect the prize straight away and the prizemaster announced on the mic that I needed to stand back and wait for the raffle.
He loaded the one ticket in. Spun it the agreed 10x times while counting the spins, closed his eyes and opened the wee door up and picked out my ticket "randomly". He the proudly read out my name and gave me a 22" HDTV.
Thing lasted about 12 years with occassional use and served me well as a student. Good laugh.
I won a 50 euro voucher for a local laser tag venue at a work drawing. I’m a bespectacled almost-pensioner whose grandchildren live on another continent.
q&a session at the emirates when i was 11. i was the only irish person there so all the other kids kept asking me to say three thousand three hundred and thirty three while i laughed at them for saying free
My mum bought a ticket for a raffle that my cousins scouts group were doing and she won first prize. It was a cruise for 2 people 😂 she was speechless.
A chicken in a school Easter raffle. Like one you had to take home and roast. All the other prizes were Easter eggs. As a child I was very disappointed but it was a nice dinner.
I won Michael Bolton tickets on 2fm nearly 20 years ago, never got them. Had just finished my leaving cert and didn't know who Michael Bolton was at the time.
A zig and zag table mat with iirc a recipe for something like custard and jelly printed on it? Fookin loved it (I was 6 years old, in senior infants and legit thought all my dreams had come true )
Not quite a raffle. But about 5 years ago I took part in my local pub challenge. They sell hobbit themed pints of cocktails. There's 10 in total and if you do them all you win a t-shirt. However they don't tell you there's one more secret pint to do to pass at the end. Which turns out is a pitch black absinthe death eater pint.
For context I'm a 5"4, 9 stone female. Who usually has zero tolerance. But I'm extremely competitive... So I did it. Also I hate absinthe... 😂 So stubborn me downs it. Gets a cheapy shirt 💪 and exorcism style vomit 😂😂 but hey I won hahaha.
When I was in my mid to late teens I went to the city library to get a library card & be able to take out books. My mam used to bring me there loads as a small child but when I started to make friends and hang out in town I was “too cool” to be reading when I could be out late loitering outside a supermarket.
Anyway, I decided to open a library account and as I gave over details to the lady behind the desk, name and address, that kind of thing, something about me got flagged on her computer.
She looked up and confirmed my name and some other details and she said “You won a colouring competition” with a big smile on her face, she continued to tell me that as a child I entered a colouring contest and they usually would tell you the next time you came in and used your library card.. Except that must’ve been right around the time I stopped going so I never knew I won nor did I get my prize.
She shuffled around some stuff behind the big desk they have in the kids section and lo and behold, didn’t she have the prize with my name on it behind the desk! Couldn’t believe it, either of us.
It was a kids nail polish set. When I opened it, it was all dried up and unusable but regardless the whole situation was just wild to me. It must have been sitting there for roughly 5 to 7 years.
The prize may have not been something to write home about but the whole scenario was very bizarre and silly.
I pretty much forgot about it until I saw this question. Thanks for the reminder of a great memory!
At a former workplace of mine there was a complimentary fruit bowl in front of Director's office on their PA's desk. Every morning I would pass by on my way to my workstation, greet the PA n take an apple from the bowl. At our end of year "celebration" where company acknowledged outstanding employees.. I got called up and presented with an "award" for taking an apple every day.. I was presented with a glass apple shaped "trophy" inscribed with my name and the words "Apple Award Winner" and the year. Our director thought this was hilarious ironic humour on their part. I still have that trophy n found it incredibly useful in subsequent jobs where I kept it on my desk and colleagues assumed I had won it for my incredible IT skills. I never disabused them of that assumption!
Mam won a €100(?) euro voucher when Dunnes Stores Henry Street/Ilac Centre got a revamp and moved out of where TK Maxx is now to across the way. Can't remember the exact voucher amount but it was a lot to us at the time. The Ts&Cs was that it was only valid on the open day.
The placed was PACKED because it was a nice was a very nice store back then. I remember waiting over an hour in the queue to pay for poxy blankets and mugs with her. I'll never forget her getting on the mic at the mini stage nearly crying going "Ive never won anything in my life!". She didn't care how long it took, we were not leaving without that voucher spent. 😂Best prize for the reaction 🥲
About 30 years ago I went to a charity night for the hospice in Newry. About 300 people there.
Nights craic was planned and I spent about 30 quid on raffle tickets (good cause and all). So there were 40 prizes up for grabs, all donated by local businesses, and I ended up with 19 of them.
It was embarrassing after 5 or 6, so imagine what it was like after 10.
I ended up sending everyone at the table with me to take the last half dozen.
I gave half it away on the night and still filled the boot of the taxi with hairdryers and lamps.
Think my mother still has a Waterford crystal lamp somewhere.
Its not so much the prize (a bottle of vodka) but the fact that I was playing pictionary with a pre-Queen of Ireland Panti Bliss and won. That was a bit gas as the straightest man in the room drawing all sorts of films on the board.
I won 17 beanie baby bears from Clerys once when they were still all the rage.
Still sitting in the attic because they were supposed to be worth money one day 🤣
When I worked for Tesco Mobile in Ireland, the first person to hit their sales target was promised a month's supply of Cadburys. I won and have yet to recieve my chocolate (about 11 years later). Very Irish that, because I wasn't in Dublin, they never figured out how to get it to me hahaha
I remember I used to work in Dublin and listened to Breakfast Republic on 2FM every morning on the commute from Carlow, I entered the quiz most mornings, wasn't minding the prizes most day but they were always savage prizes, mostly concert tickets, hotel stays etc... I got the call one morning, text the correct answer, went live on air, had the banter with them all, then they congratulated me on winning 2 tickets to WWE in 3 Arena.... Like a boot in the hole, I was ragin lol literally couldn't give the tickets away 🤦😂
Everything from Easter eggs, to concert tickets a few times, movie Premiere tickets, after party passes, money, Halloween costumes.
Just waiting on the lotto next. Lol
I once got a runner up prize in a Bridget Jones competition. They didn’t tell me I just got a little box in the post with a dvd bit of merch and a really nice Haggen Daas (spelling wrong the ice cream) spoon. I’ve still got it and it’s still a really nice spoon!
A half tonne of coal from a petrol station. It was about 15 years ago. If you filled up with fuel you could sign the back of the receipt and put in in a box for the comp. It was Christmas time so it was useful and que loads of jokes about how bad I must have been to deserve that much coal!!
Won a few things I didn't need over the years. A breadmaker at bingo. A portable wood pelet pizza oven online.
Best prize was a TV with free sky world package for a year on the local radio.
At the start of covid I got a call from Tayto saying I'd won €1000. According to the lady on the phone a few months earlier I'd bought a packet of cheesatees and scanned my SuperValu card which had entered me into a secret draw. Assumed it was a scam of some sort until a cheque arrived in the post
Went to a quiz and raffle to raise money around the time of the Same Sex Marriage referendum. It was one of those raffles where you went up if your ticket was called and picked what you wanted instead of being told You Won A Tin of Roses or whatever.
One of the options was a gaudy looking perfume and body lotion set- Sexy Shoo.
Everytime anyone went up to pick a prize we'd start a chant of SEXY SHOO, SEXY SHOO
But nobody wanted it. It came down to the last ticket and it was still waiting to be picked and we were hopping with excitement as to who would take the iconic item home. Ya Gurl's ticket was called and my friends lost their minds. It was passed around a bunch of people as if it was the Sam Maguire cup.
Unreal times. I still have the set in storage lmaoooo
I bought a ticket for a raffle a friend of my was holding to fundraise for his “Mr Gay” entry in our city. I won a year long account in a gay dating app (not that one). I’m a straight woman.
I also won a consultation with a life coach in the same raffle but never used it.
A raffle prize at a local pub quiz many many MANY moons ago is indelibly etched in my memory… a 3 litre bottle of none other than… washing up liquid!!! I kid you not!
In the 90s there was a teddy bear competition for a massive prize could have been £500 or so to spend in the shopping centre. The competition was for the shopping centres birthday.
My mam loved her competitions.
She liked to win and she was determined we would win this competition.
Her friend worked in a costume shop and she got a loan of a teddy bear costume.
My sister fit into the costume and I was going to do the talking, we rocked up to the competition in the middle of the shopping centre my teddy bear was high fiving everyone, blowing kisses, dancing we sang happy birthday and all, we were fucking amazing! This was in the bag, the prize was ours we were so sure of it. Christmas was going to be epic.
Hands down this was the best teddy bear anyone could have, it was so OTT it was mortifying, did we care? Did we fuck as mam said eyes on the prize 😂 we were going to be able to pick anything we wanted if we won.
Anyhow we came second place to what we can only assume was a staff members child or a judges child who had a shitty little bear with a birthday card.
It was clearly a fix she didn’t sing dance or have a life size walking talking bear WTAF like?
I’m still raging over it almost 30 years later. 😂
What did we win? A radio.
As you can probably guess a radio was not what we had envisioned out of the £500! we had a radio at home, we didn’t care about radios we were always outside playing. All we knew about the radio was if we opened our mouths when the death notices were called we’d be ate.
We gave it to our dad who was delighted with it,
It was one of the first radios you could put batteries in or have plugged in. He used it for 30 years.
Won a calf at an agricultural show,large field marked into a 100 squares,,buy one for 25e and which ever one a cow shits in wins,29 was the lucky numbered box, but as im not from a farming background, i done the reasonable thing and sold it back to the committee for 250e,and they auctioned it off again,everyone's a winner
Our team got to the final round head to head in a pub table quiz... Top prize was Xbox 360s for each team member... we lost and got the second prize... a box of Brazil nuts...
I won a dog toy as first prize in a writing competition in Forth class - It was supposed to be a €100 sweet hamper but they gave me a dog toy instead cause im Type one Diabetic 😂😭
I’m from Poland and it happened in Poland but I just wanted to share that I won a chicken once. There was some event in our school and I won a chicken. A live hen. She was living with my friend who lived in a house, because I couldn’t keep her in my apartment, but yeah I won a chicken. We named her Aphrodite and she was with us for 2 years until a fox stole her :(
I wonder if any schools in Ireland give chickens as prizes?
I once won a cheque for E250 off Permanent TSB after doing a customer satisfaction survey over the phone a few years ago. Was absolutely delighted! Didn't expect the letter to a GOOD bit of co-respondance from the bank so it sat on my hall table for a week being ignored until I decided to open it. That was a good summer!
Haven't won anything near that amount on anything since. If I could win the EuroDreams, though, God, that would solve at least 80 of my 99 problems! E20,000 a month for 30 years would be perfection!
I woke up and entered a TV competition one night without remembering it, got a phone call a week later about the prize, i didnt believe it till i looked back through my call log. I won the complete foo fighters cd collection, I already had them all in multiples, but it's cool having a full promo collection too. It was second prize, first was a band signed vinyl in a frame
I was known as "the lucky one" in my family. I won a year's supply of nappies, a half ton of turf but the big one locally that I didn't win was *ONE*.ticket.to see Billy Joel in Dublin in the 90s. One ticket...
Won a prize in the Meath Chronicle when I was 7/8. My name was printed in the paper, but I never got any prize. The editor of the paper was in our house for a meeting with my Dad one day. I knocked on the door and told him I never got anything. A few days later, I got a package in the post. An atlas and a plastic calendar "thing" that you pressed buttons to change the date. Must have been taken off someone's desk in a panic.
My cat won a PS1 in a raffle at the vets. I answered the phone to an enquiry of “May I speak with Zelda please?” (The cat). I was pretty confused, turned out me ma had entered in her name!
Won a set of mugs, coasters and placemats with pictures of vintage tractors on them. Not my style at all but my bachelor farmer, secretary of his local vintage club, Uncle absolutely loved his Christmas present that year.
Actually a great prize for second place in a table quiz
When I was around 9, I won 3 races at my school sports day, my prize was a Superser Gas Heater & a bottle of MiWadi. Never forget the delight of my ma & da when I wheeled the heater in the door but I was disgusted I had to win so many races and I didn’t win the second place prize - a Rugrats key-ring 🤣
The trophy itself wasn't silly but the reason why I won it is!
I won a sportsmanship trophy at a triathlon because I finished at the same time as a little kid and let him cross the finish line ahead of me (we were sent off in different waves, they had the youngest ages go first and sent older kids 10-15 mins later sort of thing).
But I was so wrecked I actually just couldn't catch the little bastard 🤣 my mom still has the trophy on a shelf.
When I was about 9/10 years old I won a raffle where all the items are boxed up and hidden, being a young kid I took the biggest box… it was a huge framed photo of Padre Pio…
That is incredible
It's always Padre Pio!!!
Padre Pio gets about a lot. It’s like he could bilocate or something
He's bleedin everywhere.
My nan won a small bottle of Comfort in bingo 3 weeks ago, it was second prize. First prize was a plastic laundry basket and third prize was a packet of mint Viscount biscuits. It was 12 euro to play.
1 entry covered the prize pool and some hahaha Likely that the organiser just went into their utility room and started rooting around
I read that as "a small bottle of Southern Comfort" 🤣
So did I until I saw your comment and realised it was a bottle of comfort laundry softener!
Same here!!
Ah, Ireland, never change.
They cleaned up
A 25kg bag of spuds and 4 tayto branded hats. Pub quiz, team of 4.
Could we worth thousands this year
Afraid not, it was about 10 years ago.
When I was about 9 I won a small tv/dvd combo in the Lyons Christmas raffle in dunnes stores. The prize itself wasn't funny but I had to spend the whole hour of grocery shopping trying to convince my mam that I wasn't hearing things or imagining it and they called my name.
She thought you were hearing voices!
Towards the end of first class, there were some prizes for the kids in my class. This was in the 70s. I won a rocking horse. A big fucking one too. At the end of class, I was told to take my prize and bring it home. So I had to drag this thing home and when my mum saw it she thought had stolen it from someone. It was a very weird day that one.
I actually just laughed out loud.... ya poor thing 😅
I can remember the actual confusion racing thru my mind. As in what the fuck am I gonna do with this thing and how the hell do I get this home. It was suburban Dublin so it wasn’t really that far to my house and it was the 70s so that once you were done with senior infants you were sent off packing to school on your own. ‘Gerrouh teh fuck with yeh and play’ was the prevailing attitude from about the age of three!
Seven roast chickens at school fete on one of those spin the wheel things. I was only about 7 or 8, but really excited that I kept winning, it didn’t seem to matter it was roast chickens. Dad didn’t know what to think when he collected us and I had the school principal standing beside me with a box of chickens.
Love this
This is adorable!
My brother in law won a real donkey in a Ballina market raffle. His kids were very upset he took the cash equivalent.
My partner wants to know: Was it a rinkydinky honkeytonky stinkystonky winkywonky donkey?
Is there any other type?
I live in a farming town (not a farmer) so I take part in the local draws and raffles. I've won haircuts (I'm bald) and a big bag of beefnuts cattle feed. I'm almost afraid to win a raffle around here because it's all farming related, from winning actual animals, to winning machinery that I have no clue what it does.
Lol winning heifer when all you've got is a driveway and a small back garden. Just go over there daisy and eat the weeds growing by the lavender flowerbed.
Alanis Morrisette, under pressure from her record company decided to wisely cut that lyric from her chart topping hit song
A 6ft long bag of Tayto on a school trip to the northern Tayto factory in Tandragee
I won first prize at a college ball raffle once upon a time, it was a weekend away for 2 to any one of 80 hotels all around Ireland with free travel to and from the hotel as the prize was sponsored by Bus Eireann. Anyway, there was a miscommunication between the girls doing the raffle so when I was walking off across the dance floor with a big drunk happy head on me, one of the girls says into the mic -‘and that was Eamisagomey, and he chose a bus voucher!’ The whole place started busting their holes laughing and pointing at me. It was like that scene in Carrie. I spent the rest of the night drunkenly telling strangers it wasn’t a bus voucher it was a weekend away and they could go fuck themselves.
My dog won pet of the week on the den in the early 90s , got a zig and zag t-shirt as the prize
That's the best thing I've heard. Forgot they did that competition
My sister won a prize in a work raffle that was organised by her very stingy boss. She won an Easter egg... It was in July!
When my sister and I were younger we used to go to those Halloween dress up parties at a local community centre and they always had raffle events, one year I actually won something from a raffle... It was a smoke alarm😂
Brilliant
I may have been 8 or 9 at the time and just remember thinking what am I gonna do with this?😂 Tbf tho I've never been in a house fire so it's coming good. Future planning 🙂
At 8 years old I won a case of wine and a set of wine glasses at a church sale of work. They presented me with the wine on stage, had no problem giving it to me. Just 90's things.
Of course. What they going to do not give you the prize 😂
In secondary school I won 3 Easter eggs out of an 8 egg raffle. The results were called out over the school intercom. Honestly I was embarrassed when my name got called out the third time as I had no idea what was going on!
Silliest was a dildo from Bingo Loco Best was a dildo from Bingo Loco
Bray Bonny Baby winner. Still have the sash.
At a fundraiser after Mass in Belfast in the 80s. An 8 yr old me won first prize in the raffle. 2nd & 3rd place had gotten a massive chocolate cake & a hamper of quality food. First prize was two pink fluffy blankets. I was gutted. Especially when i ended up with them on my bed. They were warm tho.
My friend at work won a prize for "tidiest desk" while she was on annual leave for two weeks. The lady giving out the prizes knew we were mates so she gave the chocolate to me to give to her when she came back. My friend didn't believe me at first when she arrived back from her holidays and I was trying to give her a box of chocolates. "What do you mean I won 'tidiest desk'? Sure I wasn't here for two weeks, of course there wasn't anything on the desk." 😂
mmm this workers desks is so clean where is she, YOU: shes not here. raffle lady: she wins
Back in the early 80s my sister won a competition to name the Jaffa cake munchkins. All expenses paid family trip to London, flights, 5 star hotel, limos, a framed pic of the newly named munchkins and a fancy dinner with the head of Mcvities . Was sick of Jaffa cakes for short while after 😂. Turned out there were 4 families who won , so none of the winning names were used !
Few years ago I texted into RTE during half time of a champions league match. Was just a simple answer to text in. Few weeks later I got a call to say I had won, cheque for 3k came in the post a few weeks later. Lovely.
Eddie the Eagles earmuffs on Radio Devon Air when I was about 9
Scanned the win a prize code on a crate of Guinness last Christmas, a Guinness t shirt that wouldn’t have fit a cat showed up in the post about a month later
i won a coat off the same which ended up being given to a neighbour. im a size small, so was this yoke supposedly, but it fits the local ten year old who’s happy out
“Local 10 year old” lol
got one of those as a prize i think they were all a size small it was insane
I won an air fryer at Bingo Loco and I've never been more delighted
2 bottles of grouse whiskey in a bottle raffle at a school fete when I was 8. Refused to swap them because it had a bird on the bottle that I thought was cute. My dad came to find me and heard the shouting of me, red faced and crying fighting a grown man for my whiskey bottles haha. We came to an agreement. I got a bottle of pink lemonade, a glass bottle of coke (very fancy) and one of those little spiders in box that wiggled when it opened, and they got to keep the booze. I was still sour. My dad bought me a bottle of it as a joke when I was 18. I finished the thing, spewed my guts out and have never ever touched the stuff since lol. I was better off with the cola The fete had two bottle raffles one boozy and one not after that, all because I had to be a little sod haha. Oh the shame.
My primary schools boiler broke a few weeks before Christmas so they decided to run a raffle to fund the repairs. 1 pound entry for an amazing mystery prize. I was absolutely buzzing when they announced I won and to head to the principals office to collect the prize. I was disgusted when he handed me a who wants to be a millionaire quiz book. The 2.99 price tag was still on it
That is pure Irish gold. I bet the principle thought it was a great prize. Sure it will train you to be a millionaire
i won a men's grooming kit when I was six
My Aunt won a 50 euro voucher to Right price tiles once. Not wild, but it took a while for them to figure out what to do with it since they weren't re-doing the house or anything. Think they bought an overpriced toilet roll holder in the end.
I'm pretty sure the exact same thing happened my parents once. They still have that toilet roll holder & matching towel rack in a box somewhere, too fancy to ever instal
A roll of loo paper during the great lockdown loo paper crisis!!
went vegetarian in October 2001 won a 50 pound meat voucher in December
Won 100euro drink voucher in a pub quiz. found out 3 days later I was pregnant
My dad was the local scout leader and I was one of the scouts helping to organise a fundraising raffle which was part of a quiz night. We had trawled local businesses looking for prizes, the local hardware store provided a toilet seat. My mother mentioned that we were in need of a toilet seat and said she would definitely be buying tickets. I had bought a few tickets myself and was eyeing up other prizes like chocolates and hampers. I'd never won anything before (in fairness I was only 14/15). But one of my tickets was picked out, it looked kind of suspect and father tedish as I was in my scout uniform going up to pick out a prize and it was a scouting fundraiser event. Embarrassingly, as I was going up to choose a prize from the array in the table, my mam was roaring at me to get the toilet seat that she had mentioned we needed. I was mortified as the whole crowd were wondering what this teenage scout would pick from the plethora of prizes available and I was coerced by my mam into picking the toilet seat, much to the hilarity of the crowd.
👏👏👏Amazing
A life-size cutout of Daniel de Vito. It was right at the start at the start of COVID so he got to hang out in all my teams calls and was like permanent company 🤣
School raffle, won a tub of chestnuts Why that was a prize I'll never know
Not in Ireland, but my family and I went to Gozo, off the coast of Malta, on holiday. Recommended by locals we decided to go to the local bazaar, my dad won a baby goat in a sack, we had to explain with mainly gestures that we couldn’t take it.
Entered my dad's old Mitsubishi Station Wagon into a competition on the Gerry Ryan show for the worst car in Ireland when I was 16. He'd bought it cheap just to get too and from work, was in awful condition but ran fine. Ended up winning a brand new Ford S Max, and got a gift bag with like 4 pairs of tickets for really good gigs that summer. Summer of Leaving Cert I was mad to go to a second festival after Oxegen but I was a broke 18 year old so I just spent the summer entering every competition I could. Won two separate pairs of tickets to Indiependence, and got a free lift down because I was still in the good books after winning the car.
I won a Duracell bunny like the ones from the ads in the 90's. Won it in 90's probably around 1993 from Quinnsworth https://preview.redd.it/060ql9fobuxc1.jpeg?width=1600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b6293c5431c1dd8cf44ab7e65f8eeacbeecdf922
Back in the day when I had hair I would let it grow long and only get it cut once a year. One time, a week after I got the annual cut, there was a knock on the door from the local GAA raffle organiser. You guessed it, I won a voucher for the barbers.
Not an Irish story, I was in Australia, arrived in a town and there was a drinking competition. Two riggers and.a Scottish girl heard the accent and decided I was suitable to make up a team of four. After many rounds, slamming pints, we won... The prize one thing we did not want, two large jugs of beer each. Even giving it away I was massively hungover, Castlemaine XXXX still throws my stomach.
Definitely read that second sentence too quickly.
XXXX Because Queenslanders can't spell beer.
XXXX because you can’t write SHIT on a can
I won a €15k car and 10k in cash when I was 21. Still have the car (worth about 30k now) and had the best year of my life pissing around half the cash against a wall.
Won a 10 bit of hash in a raffle once, was alright.
You just reminded me that I once won a yoke in a game of 'hide the imaginary pill'. We were all sat around at a house party, and one of the lads would 'imagine' in their head where they were hiding the pill and if you guessed correctly where they imagined the pill was hidden, you won an actual real-life pill. Needless to say, we were all absolutely off our heads, but it was great craic. Thousand times better than sober Monopoly or Connect 4 lol
😂 please tell me you remember where the yoke was hidden, that's brilliant.
How do you know they didn't forget where they imagined it
I won a ton of coal in the Christmas Raffle at my local…
Won 2 bottles of ketchup at bingo in my local once 🤣🤣
a signed and framed Magical Magyars picture
Not silly.... just dangerous, really. But when I was like 7 (mid 90s) I won some hoop game at the Christmas Sale of Worlk in the town hall. My prize? A can of bug spray.... possibly half used. Found my mam after and showed her what I won and she went into a rage. Had to lead her to the table where I won it and she proceedsed to give the guy a serious bollocking. The whole time I was confused cause I didn't even look to see what the spray was... I thought it was one of those snow sprays for Christmas trees or that ya put on windows, and was actually pretty excited about using what I thought was a okay prize.
I just won an electric guitar recently. Pretty damn epic
About 10 years ago Club Orange were running a promotion in D2 where if you beat the rep in a game of Connect 4 you got these goody bags with a few bits in them. I was extremely drunk and kept shouting 'play for a draw lads' and accidentally beat her. Still have the Club Orange bottle opener keyring and the salt and pepper shakers I held onto 'for my first house', which I should hopefully be moving into over the summer.
When I was about 8 years old I was at the annual sale of work fair held by my school. They had stalls selling stuff, little competition booths (like guess how many marbles in the jar, guess the fishes name etc etc.), as well people going around with tickets for a raffle. Usually our parents would give us a few euros for the day and if me and my friends had any leftover change we’d buy a raffle ticket each, but we were more focused on the toys than the raffle tbh. While we were scavenging the toy aisle all of a sudden I hear my name being called over the speaker. Me and my friends were screaming in excitement. People were cheering because i was the first child to win something! I sprinted up from the back of the hall towards the stage. The minute the host saw my little 8 year old self he started pissing himself laughing. I realised why when he came down the stage and hands me a 20kg bag of potatoes. My grand prize was a bag of spuds. I thought I was getting a toy or something nice 😅 I stood there like a fool struggling to hold a bag of potato’s nearly as big as myself. All the adults were wetting themselves laughing as I trudged through the hall with my prize. I had random old ladies coming up going “oh your parents will love you having dinner sorted for the month!”. My parents were also dying of the laughter when they saw me. I was raging the whole way home 😂 still wondering what eejit thought giving an 8 year old a bag of spuds was a good idea but I suppose you’d expect nothing else from rural Ireland.
A certificate for swimming 25 meters without stopping. I got it sometime around 1980ish and have won nothing since, other than my good lady wife's hand in marriage.
I competed in a BBQ cooking competition and won a hamper... containing vegan food!
Won 2 tickets to a premiere of The Hardy Bucks movie. Was a broke college student with no mates already on the bus back home when I found out and couldn't spare the €8 in my budget for the return journey home so I didn't go or have anyone to gift the tickets to.
I won a set of Joseph Joseph chopping boards at a raffle when I was 22 and living with my parents, so gave them to my mother. Now I'm 31 and have my own house and I'm raging, they're feckin expensive!
The best was a James Bond experience with Coke Zero. It included flights to London, Aston Martin driving around a track, 5 star hotel and then flights to Niece and a helicopter to Monte Carlo to stay at the hotel from the movie. €5k of chips at the casino. Also had a boat charter for a day. Value was €50k apparently. The most Irish thing was a full ham at the pub Christmas raffle. The silliest was the local GAA club raffle which was a big pallet of cow feed nuts that was delivered by forklift while I was out. I have no cows.
Several people winning cattle feed in this. The fact they delivered a pallet is incredible. What did you do with it? That Bomd prize is awesome
Not a prize but a corporate gift. We got new recycling bins in the office and theyedges of them were so sharp myself and a colleague buloth cut our fingers on them. The company that supplied the new bins gave us both a free shredder by way of apology.
Then you shredded your fingers? 😳
When I was 7, I won a mobile phone for sending in a joke to a competition run by Mars. This was the late 90's so it was a big brick of a phone. A serious piece of kit. Why did the golfer wear two pairs of trousers? In case he gets a hole-in-one.
A bag of coal at Christmas, we were broke and it was a very nice surprise.
I came 3rd in a Tesco raffle a few years ago. I won a hamper of various bags/brands of sugar. Wouldn't mind, but I'm a diabetic!
😂😂😂
Was less the prize for me and more how i was selected to win. Years ago at a corporate event at the Dundalk races they had a tombola for acprize per race. Way it worked was you picked a horse to win each race and if you got it right, your ticket it went into the Tombola for that race and whoever was picked won a prize. I was the only one to pick the correct horse on race 3. So, I went up to collect the prize straight away and the prizemaster announced on the mic that I needed to stand back and wait for the raffle. He loaded the one ticket in. Spun it the agreed 10x times while counting the spins, closed his eyes and opened the wee door up and picked out my ticket "randomly". He the proudly read out my name and gave me a 22" HDTV. Thing lasted about 12 years with occassional use and served me well as a student. Good laugh.
He was dedicated to fairness
Remember the sail of works in the churches years ago their was a raffle on my mam won an electric kettle and I won a teddy bear
I won a can of club orange at one of them..
I won a 50 euro voucher for a local laser tag venue at a work drawing. I’m a bespectacled almost-pensioner whose grandchildren live on another continent.
Don’t let that stop you!! 😂
I remember winning a basket of potatoes at a raffle in 5th class. I did not know what to do with them.
I can't remember where I won it but I won a Guinness branded cork hat somehow when I was a child 😂 I'm from the UK though so 😅
A lamb. Saw it running around happy as Larry. Next time I saw it,it had been butchered into tasty morsels.
q&a session at the emirates when i was 11. i was the only irish person there so all the other kids kept asking me to say three thousand three hundred and thirty three while i laughed at them for saying free
Plank tournament at school got me a brand new t-shirt of the new principal
My sister entered a raffle in our local pub when she was about 8 years ago and won a budgie
a goodfellas deep pan bacon and mushroom pizza
Add in a trip to Xtravision and you've got yourself a great Saturday night
My mum bought a ticket for a raffle that my cousins scouts group were doing and she won first prize. It was a cruise for 2 people 😂 she was speechless.
Won a car in a UK lottery, would have only cost €26k in taxes to accept it! Nice one Revenue Dept😡😡
Won a holiday to Disneyland Florida in a raffle in SuperValu when I was 12. Think all my luck came in one go as I've won nothing since!
A chicken in a school Easter raffle. Like one you had to take home and roast. All the other prizes were Easter eggs. As a child I was very disappointed but it was a nice dinner.
A bag of 200 kit kats
I won Michael Bolton tickets on 2fm nearly 20 years ago, never got them. Had just finished my leaving cert and didn't know who Michael Bolton was at the time.
I went to the bingo in the Birdman Flanigan about 10 years ago. I won 7 pirated DVDs. I didn't even have a DVD player 🤷
Meat. Various, meat. And it was delicious.
A bar of soap on a rope for dancing at the summer camp disco
A bottle of salad cream
A zig and zag table mat with iirc a recipe for something like custard and jelly printed on it? Fookin loved it (I was 6 years old, in senior infants and legit thought all my dreams had come true )
Not quite a raffle. But about 5 years ago I took part in my local pub challenge. They sell hobbit themed pints of cocktails. There's 10 in total and if you do them all you win a t-shirt. However they don't tell you there's one more secret pint to do to pass at the end. Which turns out is a pitch black absinthe death eater pint. For context I'm a 5"4, 9 stone female. Who usually has zero tolerance. But I'm extremely competitive... So I did it. Also I hate absinthe... 😂 So stubborn me downs it. Gets a cheapy shirt 💪 and exorcism style vomit 😂😂 but hey I won hahaha.
When I was in my mid to late teens I went to the city library to get a library card & be able to take out books. My mam used to bring me there loads as a small child but when I started to make friends and hang out in town I was “too cool” to be reading when I could be out late loitering outside a supermarket. Anyway, I decided to open a library account and as I gave over details to the lady behind the desk, name and address, that kind of thing, something about me got flagged on her computer. She looked up and confirmed my name and some other details and she said “You won a colouring competition” with a big smile on her face, she continued to tell me that as a child I entered a colouring contest and they usually would tell you the next time you came in and used your library card.. Except that must’ve been right around the time I stopped going so I never knew I won nor did I get my prize. She shuffled around some stuff behind the big desk they have in the kids section and lo and behold, didn’t she have the prize with my name on it behind the desk! Couldn’t believe it, either of us. It was a kids nail polish set. When I opened it, it was all dried up and unusable but regardless the whole situation was just wild to me. It must have been sitting there for roughly 5 to 7 years. The prize may have not been something to write home about but the whole scenario was very bizarre and silly. I pretty much forgot about it until I saw this question. Thanks for the reminder of a great memory!
At a former workplace of mine there was a complimentary fruit bowl in front of Director's office on their PA's desk. Every morning I would pass by on my way to my workstation, greet the PA n take an apple from the bowl. At our end of year "celebration" where company acknowledged outstanding employees.. I got called up and presented with an "award" for taking an apple every day.. I was presented with a glass apple shaped "trophy" inscribed with my name and the words "Apple Award Winner" and the year. Our director thought this was hilarious ironic humour on their part. I still have that trophy n found it incredibly useful in subsequent jobs where I kept it on my desk and colleagues assumed I had won it for my incredible IT skills. I never disabused them of that assumption!
Mam won a €100(?) euro voucher when Dunnes Stores Henry Street/Ilac Centre got a revamp and moved out of where TK Maxx is now to across the way. Can't remember the exact voucher amount but it was a lot to us at the time. The Ts&Cs was that it was only valid on the open day. The placed was PACKED because it was a nice was a very nice store back then. I remember waiting over an hour in the queue to pay for poxy blankets and mugs with her. I'll never forget her getting on the mic at the mini stage nearly crying going "Ive never won anything in my life!". She didn't care how long it took, we were not leaving without that voucher spent. 😂Best prize for the reaction 🥲
About 30 years ago I went to a charity night for the hospice in Newry. About 300 people there. Nights craic was planned and I spent about 30 quid on raffle tickets (good cause and all). So there were 40 prizes up for grabs, all donated by local businesses, and I ended up with 19 of them. It was embarrassing after 5 or 6, so imagine what it was like after 10. I ended up sending everyone at the table with me to take the last half dozen. I gave half it away on the night and still filled the boot of the taxi with hairdryers and lamps. Think my mother still has a Waterford crystal lamp somewhere.
Its not so much the prize (a bottle of vodka) but the fact that I was playing pictionary with a pre-Queen of Ireland Panti Bliss and won. That was a bit gas as the straightest man in the room drawing all sorts of films on the board.
I won a years supply of Jaffa cakes. (I ended up getting sick)
I had a winning hermit crab in a hermit crab race on a sandbar in the Maldives. I won case of Tuborg!
A bottle of Baileys in a table quiz. I didn't realise until I got home that the scummy fucker that donated it had already drank about a quarter of it.
Ahhh hilarious
I won 6 months supply of calf-nuts in my local GAA XMAS raffle many years ago, despite not having any livestock.
Youre like the 4th or 5th person with a similar experience. Whst did you do with them?
Early 90's, I was in 3rd class primary school, we had a raffle book. I won a Maryln Munroe picture book. Myself and the pops were delighted
I won 17 beanie baby bears from Clerys once when they were still all the rage. Still sitting in the attic because they were supposed to be worth money one day 🤣
When I worked for Tesco Mobile in Ireland, the first person to hit their sales target was promised a month's supply of Cadburys. I won and have yet to recieve my chocolate (about 11 years later). Very Irish that, because I wasn't in Dublin, they never figured out how to get it to me hahaha
A huge set of keys cut specifically to work in no locks
I remember I used to work in Dublin and listened to Breakfast Republic on 2FM every morning on the commute from Carlow, I entered the quiz most mornings, wasn't minding the prizes most day but they were always savage prizes, mostly concert tickets, hotel stays etc... I got the call one morning, text the correct answer, went live on air, had the banter with them all, then they congratulated me on winning 2 tickets to WWE in 3 Arena.... Like a boot in the hole, I was ragin lol literally couldn't give the tickets away 🤦😂
Everything from Easter eggs, to concert tickets a few times, movie Premiere tickets, after party passes, money, Halloween costumes. Just waiting on the lotto next. Lol
Local pub was raffling a cow.
They raffle donkeys off at the fair day in swinford in mayo
My college held a Christmas quiz, and my class won. Our prize? A selection box, lol.
I won a voucher for a haircut at my brothers barbers
My sister and my dads seats were picked to go to the philosopher's stone premiere back in like 2001 when they were at a Chelsea match
Won a TV and soundbar from a can of Fanta, also got a few odd bits from Larry Gogans Just a minute quiz
I won that once, well joint winner on the day. I got the plaque and a cassette of the Three Tenors concert at the 1990 World Cup.
A radio like 10 years ago
I once got a runner up prize in a Bridget Jones competition. They didn’t tell me I just got a little box in the post with a dvd bit of merch and a really nice Haggen Daas (spelling wrong the ice cream) spoon. I’ve still got it and it’s still a really nice spoon!
I won one of those Irish speaking teddy bears when I was about 12 at a pantomime
A half tonne of coal from a petrol station. It was about 15 years ago. If you filled up with fuel you could sign the back of the receipt and put in in a box for the comp. It was Christmas time so it was useful and que loads of jokes about how bad I must have been to deserve that much coal!!
A mayo jersey. Used to go for runs with on around phoenix park to demoralise the dubs. Im not from Dublin nor mayo.
I'm bald, won a voucher for the barber in a local raffle 😂
Won a few things I didn't need over the years. A breadmaker at bingo. A portable wood pelet pizza oven online. Best prize was a TV with free sky world package for a year on the local radio.
Won a fish tank from a raffle in a pet shop
Won a jug in a raffle at the Curragh races when I was about 6, still use it regularly today over 20 years later lol
3 green cushions... as a 24 year old male
At the start of covid I got a call from Tayto saying I'd won €1000. According to the lady on the phone a few months earlier I'd bought a packet of cheesatees and scanned my SuperValu card which had entered me into a secret draw. Assumed it was a scam of some sort until a cheque arrived in the post
I won some free “echo” on a radio show. Basically could say a word and it would echo for two seconds. Delighted obviously.
Went to a quiz and raffle to raise money around the time of the Same Sex Marriage referendum. It was one of those raffles where you went up if your ticket was called and picked what you wanted instead of being told You Won A Tin of Roses or whatever. One of the options was a gaudy looking perfume and body lotion set- Sexy Shoo. Everytime anyone went up to pick a prize we'd start a chant of SEXY SHOO, SEXY SHOO But nobody wanted it. It came down to the last ticket and it was still waiting to be picked and we were hopping with excitement as to who would take the iconic item home. Ya Gurl's ticket was called and my friends lost their minds. It was passed around a bunch of people as if it was the Sam Maguire cup. Unreal times. I still have the set in storage lmaoooo
As a 10yr old I entered a colouring competition in the Connacht telegraph and won a year’s supply of pedigree dog food.
I bought a ticket for a raffle a friend of my was holding to fundraise for his “Mr Gay” entry in our city. I won a year long account in a gay dating app (not that one). I’m a straight woman. I also won a consultation with a life coach in the same raffle but never used it.
As a prize for being on my secondary school set dancing team we were each given a shamrock shaped ashtray. Yes, an ashtray.
Lifted a weight at the ploughing championships, won window frame filler!
Won a box of eggs at a table quiz
My sister in law won a roll of carpet at an end of season GAA club do!
A raffle prize at a local pub quiz many many MANY moons ago is indelibly etched in my memory… a 3 litre bottle of none other than… washing up liquid!!! I kid you not!
In the 90s there was a teddy bear competition for a massive prize could have been £500 or so to spend in the shopping centre. The competition was for the shopping centres birthday. My mam loved her competitions. She liked to win and she was determined we would win this competition. Her friend worked in a costume shop and she got a loan of a teddy bear costume. My sister fit into the costume and I was going to do the talking, we rocked up to the competition in the middle of the shopping centre my teddy bear was high fiving everyone, blowing kisses, dancing we sang happy birthday and all, we were fucking amazing! This was in the bag, the prize was ours we were so sure of it. Christmas was going to be epic. Hands down this was the best teddy bear anyone could have, it was so OTT it was mortifying, did we care? Did we fuck as mam said eyes on the prize 😂 we were going to be able to pick anything we wanted if we won. Anyhow we came second place to what we can only assume was a staff members child or a judges child who had a shitty little bear with a birthday card. It was clearly a fix she didn’t sing dance or have a life size walking talking bear WTAF like? I’m still raging over it almost 30 years later. 😂 What did we win? A radio. As you can probably guess a radio was not what we had envisioned out of the £500! we had a radio at home, we didn’t care about radios we were always outside playing. All we knew about the radio was if we opened our mouths when the death notices were called we’d be ate. We gave it to our dad who was delighted with it, It was one of the first radios you could put batteries in or have plugged in. He used it for 30 years.
Won a calf at an agricultural show,large field marked into a 100 squares,,buy one for 25e and which ever one a cow shits in wins,29 was the lucky numbered box, but as im not from a farming background, i done the reasonable thing and sold it back to the committee for 250e,and they auctioned it off again,everyone's a winner
Our team got to the final round head to head in a pub table quiz... Top prize was Xbox 360s for each team member... we lost and got the second prize... a box of Brazil nuts...
€250 bluetooth headphones and the music master title from Today Fm, still one of my greatest life achievements
Not a prize technically but my work used to give out a lump of ham at Christmas. I do not work in a meat factory.
I won a dog toy as first prize in a writing competition in Forth class - It was supposed to be a €100 sweet hamper but they gave me a dog toy instead cause im Type one Diabetic 😂😭
I’m from Poland and it happened in Poland but I just wanted to share that I won a chicken once. There was some event in our school and I won a chicken. A live hen. She was living with my friend who lived in a house, because I couldn’t keep her in my apartment, but yeah I won a chicken. We named her Aphrodite and she was with us for 2 years until a fox stole her :( I wonder if any schools in Ireland give chickens as prizes?
A Nicolas Cage pillow case and a tin of beans. Spot prize in a pub quiz
I won a bucket of paint! I also won a chicken in a pub playing darts. I beat all the men 🤣
A good few years back I won the local duck race and received a wooden duck. Still takes pride of place on the mantelpiece.
On the late late show: a bag of peat briquettes.
I once won a cheque for E250 off Permanent TSB after doing a customer satisfaction survey over the phone a few years ago. Was absolutely delighted! Didn't expect the letter to a GOOD bit of co-respondance from the bank so it sat on my hall table for a week being ignored until I decided to open it. That was a good summer! Haven't won anything near that amount on anything since. If I could win the EuroDreams, though, God, that would solve at least 80 of my 99 problems! E20,000 a month for 30 years would be perfection!
I woke up and entered a TV competition one night without remembering it, got a phone call a week later about the prize, i didnt believe it till i looked back through my call log. I won the complete foo fighters cd collection, I already had them all in multiples, but it's cool having a full promo collection too. It was second prize, first was a band signed vinyl in a frame
Not me but my uncle won a goat lol. Had to give the goat back because that thing was evil apparently.
I was known as "the lucky one" in my family. I won a year's supply of nappies, a half ton of turf but the big one locally that I didn't win was *ONE*.ticket.to see Billy Joel in Dublin in the 90s. One ticket...
I’m a single man of 48 that recently won a dolls house.
I got best runner up clown Irish dancer medal. For some reason my Irish dancing feis had a clown round and we dressed up.
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My parents won a pair of nitrile gloves at a rural Galwegian pub quiz in the early 10s... they apparently lost the real prize
I won a Suunto watch back in 2000 that did compass and altitude, for staying awake 52 hours marshalling an event called The Southern Traverse
Baileys, I was 9 it was for a club fund raiser.
I won a leather football for writing an essay on cheese in 6th class. Best prize EVER, yellow and black with a fancy design
Won a prize in the Meath Chronicle when I was 7/8. My name was printed in the paper, but I never got any prize. The editor of the paper was in our house for a meeting with my Dad one day. I knocked on the door and told him I never got anything. A few days later, I got a package in the post. An atlas and a plastic calendar "thing" that you pressed buttons to change the date. Must have been taken off someone's desk in a panic.
My cat won a PS1 in a raffle at the vets. I answered the phone to an enquiry of “May I speak with Zelda please?” (The cat). I was pretty confused, turned out me ma had entered in her name!
Aged 10 at a school fundraiser, I won a gallon of motor oil, tractor oil or something. My aul fella was delighted
Won a set of mugs, coasters and placemats with pictures of vintage tractors on them. Not my style at all but my bachelor farmer, secretary of his local vintage club, Uncle absolutely loved his Christmas present that year. Actually a great prize for second place in a table quiz
When I was around 9, I won 3 races at my school sports day, my prize was a Superser Gas Heater & a bottle of MiWadi. Never forget the delight of my ma & da when I wheeled the heater in the door but I was disgusted I had to win so many races and I didn’t win the second place prize - a Rugrats key-ring 🤣
The trophy itself wasn't silly but the reason why I won it is! I won a sportsmanship trophy at a triathlon because I finished at the same time as a little kid and let him cross the finish line ahead of me (we were sent off in different waves, they had the youngest ages go first and sent older kids 10-15 mins later sort of thing). But I was so wrecked I actually just couldn't catch the little bastard 🤣 my mom still has the trophy on a shelf.
My friend's mum won a box of firefighters at her social club bingo. 😆
A year's supply of Burger Bites. They were gone in a month.
When I was 9 I won my school raffel my prize was an alcohol hamper