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Irish Independent
an hour ago
- General
- Irish Independent
‘If you find this please call us' – Canadian couple plan to visit Kerry beach where their message in a bottle washed up after 13 years
The story of the bottle's Atlantic crossing has attracted global attention, with CBS News and the Washington Post picking it up. The note, written by Brad Squires and Anita Moran (now Squires) during a romantic picnic on Bell Island in Newfoundland, was discovered by Kate and John Gay while walking along a beach on Scraggane Bay near Castlegregory. Thinking it was litter, the couple picked up the wine bottle tangled in seaweed, only to find the note tucked inside. It read: 'Anita and Brad's day trip to Bell Island. Today, we enjoyed dinner, this bottle of wine and each other at the edge of the island. If you find this note call us.' Kate Gay, who found the bottle, said she is amazed the story has generated such attention across the Atlantic. 'I think it's this idea of the bottle being so resilient,' she said. It barely leaked – there was no damage to it, no chips, cracks, nothing 'First, it had to survive the cliff it was thrown over. Then since 2012, there have been a series of really violent storms, there were big vessels on its route, but it survived it all. 'It barely leaked – there was no damage to it, no chips, cracks, nothing.' Over the past week, Ms Gay had the chance to speak to the Canadian couple during appearances on Canadian TV and radio. When they wrote the message, they had been dating for a year and were in a long-distance relationship, as Mr Squires was a police officer in British Columbia and Ms Moran was training to be a nurse in Newfoundland. They had taken a ferry to Bell Island from St John's, and had decided to get a piece of paper from their car and push a note inside the bottle at the end of a picnic. ADVERTISEMENT Ms Gay said the couple now plan to visit the Maharees in Kerry next year for their 10th wedding anniversary. 'I'm sure they will be going and seeing where it washed up,' she said. The day she found the bottle, Ms Gay was hosting a meeting of the Maharees Heritage and Conservation, an environmental group that had organised the beach clean-up that led to the discovery. 'I thought it would be a really fun thing to open the bottle when other members of the team were there,' she said. After a few failed attempts to tease out the note with tweezers, they had to break the bottle. 'A little tap of a hammer and it came out,' she said. When they called the number, there was no reply, but once the group posted the story on Facebook, it went viral within hours. Friends alerted the Canadian couple that their note had been found. 'I've spoken to them via a radio show and a TV show,' Ms Gay said. 'It was really nice to hear their voices, fill some gaps, and they sound absolutely lovely, and just can't believe the reaction themselves. 'But also can't believe that the bottle even made it beyond Bell Island, because there are steep cliffs there, so the bottle first had to negotiate getting over the cliffs and away from the rocks, which it did, and spent 13 years finding its way through storms and currents to the shores of the Maharees.' Ms Gay said the couple married in 2016 and now have three children. 'When it was all coming to light, their phones were just pinging. They were just putting the kids to bed, and just wondering why their phones were so active,' she said. While the bottle took more than a decade to drift to Ireland, the internet tracked down the couple within hours. The Maharees, where the bottle was found, is a 5km sand tombolo separating Brandon Bay and Tralee Bay, one of Ireland's most vulnerable coastal communities in the face of storms. We just thought it was a gorgeous story Parts of Newfoundland face similar challenges. 'We just thought it was a gorgeous story,' said Martha Farrell, chair of the Maharees Conservation Association, who was at the meeting when the bottle was opened. 'Kate is on our Coastal Resilience Project, and she finds it and opens it during one of our coastal resilience meetings. And guess what, Anita, who sent the bottle, is from Prince Edward Island, which is basically the equivalent of the Maharees in Canada.' At the meeting where the message was read, Ms Farrell said they mooted getting in touch with other coastal communities around the world, unaware that the story of the message in the bottle would go viral. She said the series of events have been full of serendipity. 'The bottle got here in one piece, the couple are still together and got married,' she said.
The Sun
2 hours ago
- Business
- The Sun
US senators push ‘sledgehammer' sanctions bill against Russia for Trump
WASHINGTON: US senators are advancing a bipartisan bill designed to give President Donald Trump sweeping sanctions powers against Russia, described as a 'sledgehammer' to pressure Moscow. The move comes as US-Ukraine envoy Keith Kellogg prepares for a visit to Kyiv, with Trump promising a major statement on Russia. Republican Senator Lindsey Graham confirmed strong Senate support for the bill, which would empower Trump to impose severe economic measures, including 500% tariffs on nations aiding Russia. 'This allows the president to go after Putin's economy and those propping up his war machine,' Graham told CBS News. Trump, who has grown increasingly critical of Russian President Vladimir Putin, hinted he may back the sanctions after months of restraint. 'I'm looking at it very strongly,' Trump said during a cabinet meeting, though he stopped short of confirming he would enforce the measures. The proposed sanctions could extend to major economies like China, India, and Brazil if they continue trading with Russia. Graham emphasized the bill's potential to force an end to the Ukraine conflict, calling it 'leverage to bring peace closer.' Ukrainian leaders also welcomed the proposal, stating it could strengthen diplomatic efforts. Meanwhile, discussions continue on unlocking frozen Russian assets worth billions for Ukraine's use. Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal stressed the urgency, saying, 'The $5 billion the US holds should be accessed now.' - AFP
AFP
2 hours ago
- Politics
- AFP
Posts share hoax report Trump ordered 'total border shutdown'
"President Donald Trump order (sic) full borders shut down people may be locked out of the US," reads the caption of a Facebook reel shared on July 3, 2025. The video appears to show a news report featuring a voiceover that says the US president signed "one of the most extreme executive orders in US history", enacting a "total border shutdown" from July 1 with no set reopening date. "No one goes in, no one comes out. Not even legal residents with full documentation," it says. Image Screenshot of the false Facebook post captured on July 9, 2025, with the red X added by AFP Similar videos were shared elsewhere on Facebook. "If this is true, it will be the end of tourism in America!" read a comment on one of the posts. Another said: "This reeks of martial law in America, they're getting strict. I hope this isn't true." The posts surfaced after Trump revived his first-term travel ban on June 4, barring entry to people from 12 countries, including Afghanistan, Iran, Libya and Somalia (archived link). The proclamation also covers Burma, Chad, Congo, Eritrea, Haiti, Sudan, Yemen and Equatorial Guinea. The list results from a January 20 executive order Trump issued requiring the departments of State and Homeland Security and the Director of National Intelligence to compile a report on "hostile attitudes" towards the United States and whether entry from certain countries represented a national security risk. Trump issued an executive order during his first term in January 2017 banning travel to the United States by citizens of seven predominantly Muslim countries -- Iraq, Syria, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia and Yemen. But as of July 13, there have been no official reports or announcements from either the White House or the US Federal Register announcing a "total border shutdown" (archived here and here). A reverse image search on Google using keyframes from the falsely shared video led to the same clip posted on June 29 by a user who frequently posts misinformation about US politics framed as "breaking news". Further reverse image searches found the clip of Trump holding up a signed executive order was also posted on CBS News's Instagram on May 20 (archived link). "President Trump signed a bipartisan bill into law that makes it a federal crime to post real and fake sexually explicit imagery online of people without their consent," reads the video's caption. Image Screenshot comparison of the falsely shared clip (left) and the CBS News video (right) An analysis of the audio used in the false posts using the Hiya voice cloning detection tool from The Verification Plug-in (formerly known as InVID-WeVerify) found it was "very likely AI-generated". Image Screenshot of the audio analysis on The Verification Tool's Hiya AFP has debunked other misinformation related to Trump here.
Yahoo
9 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Richard Kind Gets Candid About Body Image After Being Teased for Being Overweight as a Kid: 'In My Head, I'm a Fat Person'
Richard Kind is looking back at his childhood and getting candid about body image The Curb Your Enthusiasm star, 68, opened up in a new interview with CBS News Sunday Morning about what he used as a coping mechanism while growing up as a "fat" kid "Still a fat kid even to this day. I'll never be a thin person… In my head, I'm a fat, fat person," Kind said of his mindset all these years laterRichard Kind is getting candid about body image and how he learned to "laugh at myself" after being teased as a child. The 68-year-old actor, known for his work in Curb Your Enthusiasm and beyond, revealed in a new interview with CBS News Sunday Morning that he was teased growing up as an overweight boy. 'I was a fat kid,' Kind said. 'I bet I was a loser. I might have made fun of me." Now years later, Kind shared that it was a friend at summer camp who taught him what he said was "absolutely" a coping mechanism. As he explained, his friend — also overweight — encouraged him to "laugh at myself." "He was a fat kid, too, who then lost weight. I eventually lost weight," the actor said. "Still a fat kid even to this day. I'll never be a thin person… In my head, I'm a fat, fat person." Elsewhere in his conversation with CBS News Sunday Morning's Jon LaPook, Kind opened up about his place in television and film — as the announcer on Everybody's Live with John Mulaney, in Only Murders in the Building and even on the cast of Sharknado 2. As he put it, he's grateful to be in the room with other stars. "I am parsley on a plate of meat and potatoes," he joked. "Now, I'm good. I look great there. I'm the freshest parsley! But they're meat and potatoes. What do I do? I help make the plate look great." Never miss a story — sign up for to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. "That's fine. That's what I usually do," he added. "But I can be cut out. I'm just not necessary all the time. And I'm fine, fine, fine with that. I've made a career of it, haven't I?" Along the way, Kind also made friends with George Clooney. He recently discussed their longtime friendship on the June 9 episode of the Still Here Hollywood Podcast with Steve Kmetko, emphasizing Clooney's reputation as a prankster in the movie business. Asked to share some stories, Kind replied, 'But you will not hear them from me. You won't hear them from me for a couple of reasons. No. 1, George gets all the publicity he needs. I need a little more. So that's the first thing. The second thing is nobody tells them funnier than George.' Still, Kind called out his pal — whom he met while working on a failed '80s TV pilot — for a practical joke he'd 'forgotten' until recently. 'One night, years ago, I have to go to Vegas for some publicity,' Kind recalled, noting that he was staying at Clooney's old Los Angeles home at the time. 'I have my suitcase downstairs and [I'm] waiting for the car to come.' 'George, who had been in the kitchen or something like that, sits down at the foot of the stairs, and we're just chatting. We're gabbing,' Kind recalled. 'And I say, 'Oh, I forgot something,' and I go upstairs to get something. I come back downstairs, and then the car comes, and the guy who's driving the car takes the bag, and he puts it into the trunk, and I get driven to Burbank Airport, I think.' It wasn't until Kind went through airport security that Clooney's prank came to fruition. 'They pull me aside and they go, 'Sir, could you come here, please?' And I go, 'Yeah.' And he opens up the suitcase, and there's an Oscar and a SAG award that George put in my suitcase as we were waiting to go, and I have to schlep.' 'It's a good practical joke,' Kind added. Read the original article on People
Hindustan Times
9 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Hindustan Times
Poker Face actor Richard Kind explains why he's fine not being the star: ‘I am parsley…'
If you have ever seen Only Murders in the Building, Poker Face, Argo, or A Serious Man, you have likely come across Richard Kind. However, you may be unfamiliar with his name. The veteran actor prefers it this way, balancing fame and anonymity at the same time. In a conversation with CBS News, the Inside Out actor recalled how people might remember him from a project but don't know his name. Only Murders in the Building actor Richard Kind has worked in several acclaimed projects over the years.(Instagram/@realrichardkind) "I'll walk down the street and somebody will go, 'Oh, you're a national treasure.' And then I pass 250 people who don't know who I am, and yet that person thinks I'm a national treasure!" he told CBS. Also Read: James Brolin recalls blind date with Barbra Streisand which both almost cancelled Richard Kind reflects on his life and career Kind was raised in Princeton, New Jersey, and believed he would inherit his father's jewelry business. "That I'm an actor is so wrong," he explained. The Argo star added he should have joined his dad's store, gone into business, or chosen to become a lawyer, like how people expect from a suburban middle-class family's kid. While Kind has earned his reputation as a respected performer, when he was a kid, he wanted to achieve stardom instead of acclaim. As a child, Kind was mocked for his weight. However, a friend from camp showed the budding actor how to laugh at himself. Also Read: Evan Rachel Wood won't appear in Practical Magic 2 - Here's why Richard Kind has established a steady career as a character actor in theater, television, and movies. He's done it all, from heartfelt roles like Inside Out's Bing Bong to humorous roles in Sharknado 2 and Curb Your Enthusiasm. While not playing the lead role, he brings warmth, comedy, and sincerity to every character he essays. Richard Kind on being moderately famous Kind discovered his confidence at Northwestern University and the renowned Second City improv theater in Chicago. "Six nights a week at Second City, that's my acting Harvard," he stated. Despite his abilities, Kind's father frequently looked to other sources for validation about his son's acting skills, like his professors or friends. The Poker Face actor also had a humorous response to how he's survived in the entertainment industry. "I am parsley on a plate of meat and potatoes," he joked. Adding to the hilarious comment, Kind explained, "Now, I'm good. I look great there. I'm the freshest parsley! But they're meat and potatoes. What do I do? I help make the plate look great. That's fine. That's what I usually do. But I can be cut out. I'm just not necessary all the time. And I'm fine, fine, fine with that. I've made a career of it, haven't I?" FAQs Why is Richard Kind famous? Richard Kind is known for his standout roles in shows like Curb Your Enthusiasm and Spin City. He's also recognized for his voice work in Inside Out and his Broadway projects. Is Richard Kind related to Barbra Streisand? Yes, Richard Kind is distantly related through Barbra Streisand's half-sister, Roslyn Kind, and her late stepfather. Is Richard Kind friends with George Clooney? Yes, Richard Kind and George Clooney have been close friends for years. Clooney was even the best man at Kind's wedding.
