Lost racing pigeon gets lift home to Ireland on Cork trawler

'Lady Ann' in the wheelhouse of the Alannah Reilly fishing trawler 180 miles off the west coast of Ireland. Lady Ann reunited with her owner Jack Reilly in Drogheda, Co. Louth Pics supplied by Louise Walsh

A racing pigeon who got lost flying home from France and landed on a fishing trawler in the Atlantic ocean has been returned to her owner.

Lady Ann's owner thought she was lost forever when bad weather made her fly off course during a 405-mile race from France to her home in Drogheda, Co Louth.