Message on a circulating €20 reunites former lovers

A love letter penned to the back of a €20 note has brought an Irish couple back together.

Denise O’Reilly is the unsuspecting cupid of the story who, moved by the note on a piece of currency in her purse, shared it on social media in the hope of finding who wrote it, and who the warm words were intended for.

Amazingly, it worked.

Ms O’Reilly’s posts to Twitter and Facebook were shared thousands of times and eventually seen by the man, Mr Christy Leech, who never received the note an old flame had purposively circulated at a gig.

Speaking to Irish radio, Mr Leech explained the story of sliding doors.

“Megan was the name I used to call my ex-girlfriend. We went out for a year and a half. The name arose from when I misheard her name and thought she was Megan for our first week of dating. Then it stuck,” he said.

“I’m a musician and while we were going out, I wrote her a song called, ‘It’s Always Been You.’

“We broke up and she met someone new. After I saw the note on a FB post, I called her. She told me she had written it on a note she used to pay into one of my gigs about six months ago. I didn’t know she was there. She told me she thought I’d get the cash directly but I obviously didn’t. She took it that I didn’t want to talk.

“So, now we’re in touch again but the situation is quite different.”