Tyler Burns, aged 26, said he’s still in shock after the win last Sunday night. “It still hasn’t sunk in yet.” His partner Erin, aged 25, gave birth to their first child Jonah just three days before Tyler won the prize and the couple had been living trying to raise money for their first house.

“There’s been lots of tears. It just keeps hitting us in a different way all over again,” she said. Advertisement Advertisement Did you know with an ad-lite subscription to NorthernIrelandWorld, you get 70% fewer ads while viewing the news that matters to you.

It was an easy choice for Tyler to take the house in Craigavon rather than the £175k cash prize with lucky number 9518. He revealed they are living with Erin’s parents at the moment. “We moved in there for a while to try and get a bit of money together so we could actually get a deposit and get a mortgage and a house.

So that just went out the window,” said Tyler. “We are very grateful.” Erin said they were trying to avoid renting and try and get on the property market.

That was the best option to stay at home for another while. We honestly didn’t know how long it was going to take us to save for a deposit, so this has really sorted us out,” said Erin with a huge smile. Tyler, who went to Brownlow Integrated College, is working in a factory which makes peat incense but has ambitions to become a tailor and make Irish linen shirts.

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