Titanic message in a bottle goes on display

A YOUNG Irishman’s poignant message in a bottle which he threw from the deck of the doomed Titanic has gone on public display for the first time in almost a century.

The family of Jeremiah Burke, 19, from Ballinoe, White’s Cross in Co Cork, officially handed his tragic farewell note over to the Cobh Heritage Centre yesterday.

“It has been in our family for almost 100 years but it wasn’t a difficult decision to hand it over,” said his niece, Cllr Mary Woods, the mayor of Midleton.