Saturday 20 July, 2019
A local councillor in Sligo said appropriate measures will be taken to investigate the matter and remove the whale.
About 175 whale and dolphin strandings have been reported so far this year.
Whale activity has increased since April with a number of humpback whales spotted off the West Cork coast.
Dr Simon Berrow from the Irish Whale and Dolphin Group called the figures “unprecedented”.
Kerri-Ann Boylan and her students had a close encounter with a shark on Sunday morning.
Marine enthusiasts say rising numbers of dolphins appear to be drowning after getting caught in fishing nets off the northwest coast.
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A piece of plastic debris wrapped around its beak preventing it from feeding.
The pod of pilot whales have become stranded for a second time today.
The mammal – believed to be a striped dolphin – became stuck in shallow water in rocks on Kilkee Beach.
It follows several incidents in which people were rammed and injured. One woman was medivaced home to Germany after an encounter with the mammal.
The porpoise was taken back out into open water by a coast guard crew.
A sperm whale which washed up on a beach near Dungarvan had no hope of survival, and died earlier this morning.
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Dolphins are living off Donegal – but an expert has warned the species has killed people “if they act the maggot”.
THE IRISH WHALE and Dolphin Group (IWDG) has advised people not to cross the path of the humpback whale off Howth Head in Co Dublin, and to travel parallel to it if trying to sight it. The adult whale was spotted between Howth Harbour and Ireland’s Eye yesterday.
THE LATEST DEADLINE for Britain to leave the European Union is 31 October.
The Brexit referendum, which passed by 51.9%, happened in June 2016. More than three years later, a deal doesn’t seem much closer.
A new British prime minister is set to be sworn in next week – with pro-Brexit Boris Johnson the frontrunner.
Theresa May failed to get parliamentary backing for a deal agreed between the EU and Britain, but will her successor have more luck? Or will a no-deal Brexit come to pass?
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