GREAT CROSS..ALL WAY ACROSS SEA

Dad & son find Irish U12 team's ball on Welsh beach

- LAUREN BEAVIS

A FAMILY in Wales discovered a football that washed up nearly 130km from its team's home in Ireland - after floating across the Irish Sea.

Andrew Jones and his son, Celyn, 12, were "very surprised" to discover the ball on the small beach Porth y Nant, in Nant Gwrtheryn, on Easter Sunday.

Andrew, who runs the local Pengraig Campsite, said: "I saw a football right by my feet, and kicked it across the beach to my son.