Lovers message in a bottle found 13 years later and 2,000 miles away

Brad and Anita Squires tossed a message in a bottle into the Atlantic off Canada’s coast, and it washed ashore in Ireland 13 years later - (Maharees Heritage and Conservation)

A message tossed into the Atlantic nearly 30 years ago by a Canadian couple washed up on the shores of Ireland’s Scraggane Bay this week.

When Brad Squires, 40, threw a bottle off the cliffs of Bell Island 13 years ago, he and his then-girlfriend Anita, now 35, doubted it would even reach the ocean, let alone survive the journey across the Atlantic.