{"id":387960,"date":"2026-04-08T10:59:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T10:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/387960\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T10:59:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T10:59:10","slug":"watch-delight-as-ballybofey-man-scoops-e360k-home-in-galway-gaa-draw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/387960\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Delight as Ballybofey man scoops \u20ac360K home in Galway GAA draw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\ud83c\udfe0WE HAVE A WINNER \ud83c\udfe0<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to Dean Doherty, Ballybofey, Co. Donegal, the winner of a fantastic new home in Kinvara \ud83e\ude85<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcdeHere is the moment Dean received the all important phonecall from Galway GAA Chairperson, Paul Bellew.<\/p>\n<p>Huge thanks to everyone who supported the\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ozsNbZDySj\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/ozsNbZDySj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Galway GAA Official (@Galway_GAA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Galway_GAA\/status\/2041616579721322811?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">April 7, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A delighted Ballybofey man has won a stunning new home in Kinvara, Co Galway.<\/p>\n<p>Dean Doherty, 46, got the fright of his life when Galway GAA chairman Paul Bellew called him live on Facebook to tell him the news this evening.<\/p>\n<p>A gobsmacked Dean is holidaying in Spain at the moment.<\/p>\n<p>Dean replied \u201cAh no way, I didn\u2019t win the house, did I?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Paul replied \u201cNo I\u2019m just ringing with a survey\u201d before putting Dean out of his agony and told him he had indeed won the first prize of a \u20ac360,000 two bedroom home.<\/p>\n<p>When Paul asked Dean if he could confirm he was over 18 years old, an emotional Dean replied \u201cI am, I\u2019m f***** 46.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dean is due to come home next week and will get the keys to his new home.<\/p>\n<p>Just as long as he doesn\u2019t swap the Donegal jersey for the Galway jersey in the championship!<\/p>\n<p>Watch: Delight as Ballybofey man scoops \u20ac360K home in Galway GAA draw was last modified:  April 8th, 2026 by Staff Writer<\/p>\n<p>      Tags:<\/p>\n<p>                <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\ud83c\udfe0WE HAVE A WINNER \ud83c\udfe0 Congratulations to Dean Doherty, Ballybofey, Co. Donegal, the winner of a fantastic new&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":387789,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[30883,59392,172243,17716,61,60,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-387960","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-galway-gaa","9":"tag-ballybofey","10":"tag-dean-doherty","11":"tag-house","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}