Message in a bottle takes eight years to cross Atlantic

Charline and Claudia from Montreal — your message has finally arrived.

A schoolboy in the Waterford village of Passage East has found a message in a bottle, eight years after it was launched into the Atlantic in Canada.

Oisin Millea, nine, found the handwritten note inside a green plastic 7-Up bottle last Thursday in the aftermath of high tide flooding, more than 5,100km from where it entered the sea.