Tuesday 13 November, 2018
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.
It took a year to nurse Leona back to health.
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.
FRENCH PRESIDENT EMMANUEL Macron called for a “real” European army to be established last Tuesday, at the beginning of a week commemorating the centenary of the end of the First World War.
The French President is specifically pushing for the creation of a nine-country European force which would be independent from NATO and which could rapidly mount a joint military operation.
In June, nine countries - France, Germany, Belgium, Britain, Denmark, the Netherlands, Estonia, Spain and Portugal – signed off on a joint military intervention force.
As EU security and defence spending has increased, and after we signed up to Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO) in December of last year, some have argued that Ireland’s neutrality is now under threat.
So, today we’re asking: Would you support the idea of a European army?
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