From Newfoundland to Maharees: How a 13-Year-Old Message in a Bottle Brought a Canadian Couple to Kerry – September 2nd, 2025

A story that began 13 years ago on an island off Newfoundland had another chapter written yesterday in Spillane’s Bar and Restaurant in Castlegregory. It was there that Brad and Anita Squires, who wrote a message in a bottle and threw it into the sea off Bell Island, got to meet the couple who found the bottle, Jon and Kate Gay, as well as the community.  Jerry went there to catch up with the Canadians, now married with children and talk to them about the journey the message in the bottle has taken them on.