Message in a bottle lands girls trip to Ireland

Two Canadian girls whose decision to throw a message in a bottle into the Atlantic ocean are set to arrive in this country later today.

Eight years after the bottle set sail from the rugged Grande-Villée area of Quebec before landing in Passage East in Co Waterford, Charlaine Dalpé and Claudia Garneau are set to make a similar, if somewhat more comfortable journey, courtesy of Tourism Ireland.

As part of a thank you gesture for the part they played in the feelgood story, the tourism body has organised an all-expenses paid trip for the pair in this country.