Scéal i mbarr bata

Is téarma agus nath cainte Gaeilge é Scéal i mbarr bata. Teileagram ba chiall leis agus is cosúil gur fhorbair ciall scéal an chaipín dheirg nó scéal seafóideach ina dhiaidh sin.. 

"Scéal i mbarr bata a thug an dream a tháinig romhainn ar an teileagram nuair a tháinig sé i dtosach." https://tuairisc.ie/do-chuala-sceal-do-cheas-gach-lo-me-feall-naisiunta-an-leathanbhanda/

Scéal i mbarr bata https://www.jstor.org/stable/41429686?seq=11

Scéal i mbarr bata – this was the phrase proposed for a telegram around the time they were proposing gearrán iarrainn for a bicycle. It was based on the early Irish sagas, when messages would be written in the Ogham alphabet on a stick and sent by a runner. The term died a natural death, being replaced by the elegantly appropriate compound word sreangscéal, sreang being a wire, and scéal meaning news, tidings, message, or whatever you’re having yourself. 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/irish/articles/view/1190/english/