Katelyn in the driving seat for vintage end to 2020!

IT could have been either a belated birthday present or an ‘early Santy’ – but either way for one-year-old Katelyn Loughnane she’s now the proud owner of a vintage tractor.

Katelyn’s dad, Martin Loughnane from Ballydugan in Leitrim parish near Loughrea, ‘threw a tenner’ into a pre-Christmas draw in Northern Ireland for the Make-A-Wish foundation.

Two things caught his eye with the draw – the first one being the ‘good cause’ element of the fundraiser and the second, the fact that a vintage tractor was first prize.

“I put Katelyn’s name down on the ticket and before Christmas I saw a UK number coming up on my phone.

“When I answered, the caller wanted to speak to Katelyn and I replied that this might be difficult given that she was only one-year-old.

“Then he broke the news to me that she was the winner of the vintage tractor – and I couldn’t believe it,” Martin Loughnane told the Connacht Tribune.

By the following Monday (December 21), the impeccably turned out Ford 3000 tractor had arrived at Ballydugan to be inspected by Martin, partner Lisa and of course Katelyn.

For more, read this week’s Connacht Tribune.

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