A sports watch lost by a swimmer off the coast of west Wales has been found more than 250km away on a Co Waterford beach.
Martina Morgan was swimming in Tenby in early April when she noticed her Garmin watch, secured to a buoyancy aid, had come loose and drifted out to sea.
Ms Morgan resigned herself to not seeing it again.
"I had to say goodbye to my watch, which my husband gave me for Christmas, and I was pretty annoyed," she told RTÉ News.
However, three weeks later Ms Morgan received a Facebook message saying that the watch had been found by Irish environmental artist Sean Corcoran.
He had discovered the watch, still attached to the float, in Ladies Cove near Waterford.
"The buoyancy aid caught my eye and then I discovered there was a watch attached to it. When I got home, I tested some of the buttons, and I looked up the model and the make. I figured it was just out of battery.
"I was very curious as to where it came from and how it arrived on the Copper Coast.
"Someone gave me a loan of a Garmin watch charger. And thankfully when we got it charged up, we discovered that the owner's name was attached.
"At that point, I was also worried - what if Martina was also missing? But we put a public call out and within 20 minutes we were able to make contact with Martina and her husband Ed in Tenby in Wales."
Mr Corcoran is now returning the watch to Ms Morgan, via one of her friends who is visiting Ireland.
"It's a pretty incredible turn of events - the moral of the story is to make sure your swim buoyancy aids are attached properly!" she said.
Additional reporting: Brian Walsh
