Winner Anne Fahy with host Marty Whelan.

Tipperary woman goes on a €42,000 Winning Streak

The 2019/'20 season of the Winning Streak game show was concluded at RTÉ studios in Dublin on Wednesday (September 16th) as 10 players took part in two separate game shows which paid out a total of €401,000 in cash prizes.

Among the big winners was Tipperary woman, Anne Fahy from Cashel who scooped a total of €42,000 in cash prizes. Anne was originally due to appear on the Winning Streak TV Game show on Saturday, March 21st, but this was later postponed following government restrictions due to Covid-19.

When Anne Fahy’s name came out of the Winning Streak drum back in March, she was a bit of a local celebrity in her town of Cashel, Co. Tipperary. The town of Cashel had been used to celebrating Winning Streak luck as another local lady, Anne Skeffington was on the show three weeks previously for her second time!

Anne, originally from Clonmel, is married to husband Noel for the past 34 years. Noel runs a local shoe shop in Cashel called ‘Noel Fahy Footwear’, a business in operation since 1984, so the couple are well known in their community.

Anne is a retired midwife, who retired five years ago, after working in South Tipperary General Hospital in Clonmel for many years.

Despite being retired, Anne is very active and has a number of hobbies. They include hillwalking – she is member of two groups: the Mid Tipp Hillwalkers and the Wednesday Wasters who frequent the beautiful scenery that Cashel and the surrounding areas provide. She is also a leader of the local Girl Guides group, something she has done for the past 25 years and plays the odd round of golf at Cahir Park golf club. As if that wasn’t enough, she also loves a game of Bridge- the card game – and is a member of the local Bridge 89 Club in Cashel.

As of yet, she has no plans for winnings from the show but will wait until the dust settles to see how she will spend her Winning Streak windfall.

The Winning Streak National Lottery game show is co-presented by Marty Whelan and Sinead Kennedy and features some perennial favourite games including Play or Pay, Roll for Riches, WinFall and Electric Dream – where one player is guaranteed to win an electric car worth €25,000.

Attendance at the two Winning Streak game shows was in strict adherence to Government guidelines and attendees only included players and the requisite National Lottery and KPMG personnel. Each participating player had the opportunity to play the full suite of Winning Streak games with the same prizes on offer, whilst at all times ensuring all social distancing and health and safety guidelines were followed. The National Lottery has confirmed that this event will not be broadcast on RTÉ television.

Last August, the National Lottery and RTÉ announced that Winning Streak will not be returning this Autumn due to ongoing restrictions related to Covid-19.