Floods: Storm Desmond returns stolen rosary beads

Storm Desmond is being credited with the return of religious items, including a set of rosary beads, to a woman in Co Kerry in a bizarre story in which a hunter mistook her stolen bag for a sitting duck.

The woman, Eileen Finnegan from Kilgarvan, says she must be the only person in the country to be thankful for the storm — after it washed up a much-loved rosary beads which had been stolen from her car, along with a Padre Pio medal.

Eileen had been to Mass in Kilgarvan on Saturday, November 14, only to return to her car to find it had been broken into and her bag stolen. Two other cars were also broken into.