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A SHORT BEAK common dolphin died in Cork during the week after a piece of plastic debris wrapped around its beak preventing it from feeding.
Speaking to TheJournal.ie, Pádraig Whooley from the Irish Whale and Dolphin Group in Cork, said that the death of this dolphin was “directly to the human use of plastics” adding that had someone not been so “lazy as to discard a piece of plastic in the sea, then the dolphin could still be alive today”.
“I spoke to the vet Tim O’Leary who attended to the dolphin. He said it was quite distressing,” he said.
Plastic
“What people need to understand is that plastics are detrimental to all wildlife, including dolphins, like the one that died this week. It takes hundreds of thousands of years for this plastic to break down, so it is just floating there in our oceans and seas,” said Whooley.
He explained that the likes of six pack rings should be cut up before disposal so as to prevent any wildlife getting caught in the rings.
“I do it automatically now and I was just explaining to my young child about why we must do this. Everyone needs to get into this habit,” said Whooley.
“Every single piece of plastic ever made in the history of plastic manufacturing still exists today,” he maintained.
Feeding
“This piece of plastic would have made it impossible for the dolphin to feed and very quickly it would have become dehydrated. Essentially his jaw was stapled shut. It is most likely that that is what the dolphin died of,” explained Whooley, who said dolphins get their fluids from ingesting fish.
“The vet gave the dolphin injections to try and boost the animal but it was clear that the dolphin was going to expire, which it did a short time later,” he said.
He urged anyone that came across a stranded whale or dolphin to get in touch with the Irish Whale and Dolphin Group.
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Is Michael Healy-Ray really that stupid ,,,,, Looks like the apple didn’t fall too far from the tree !!!!!
yes they are , and the very ones, that has there bread buttered by him , i heard , that these guys run, co, Kerry ,if your not with, them your out, and stay out ?. local Mafioso, i here say .big fish in small ponds .
How on earth did that amadan Healy Rae get elected , are people in constituency really that thick????
maybe we could put the dog into the dail instead of micheal.
As a farmer said to me ‘why should I indicate ,sure everybody knows where I’m going .’ The rural attitude to visitors/tourists is that they should deposit their money at the county boundary and not annoy the natives with demands for service, unspoilt countryside etc. It takes a Healy-Rae to actually come out and say this ; tell us more Michael.
Michael Healy Rae your ignorance knows absolutely no bounds!!
Michael Healy Rae is supported by the plain people of Kerry – crap goes in, crap comes out.
It’s bloody obvious Micheal Healy Rae is a man that can smell money a mile away. He must be doing a reality tv show soon and needs the cash for the phone and text votes. This is the Td who cut the grass of developers houses in my estate only last summer after he was elected. He even had his ‘vote no1′ stickers still on his van with his picture so there was no denying it was him. My ghost estate is in north cork so he drove a bit from Kerry to help the developer who is living it up in the uk!
I live in the country, and I know my way around. I have to say, country driving, particularly people over a certain age and in a certain profession, is shocking bad. No indicating, lucky if there’s one working brake light on the car. If a trailer is being towed, good luck. Then you can actually see the driver looking everywhere but the road. I usually have a rant about this a few times a week, when I’m stuck behind some numpty who doesn’t indicate, no brake light on the trailer, thinks road signs are just decorations for the roadside. And that Healy-Rae lad is a bigger numpty for questioning the need for road signs.
It says much for his chosen career that he is able to function as a member of the Dail, most of the political class see their job as being ” gettin in then gettin as much as they can ” this applies to most countries so we shouldn’t feel superior, but we do have a very good class of gobshites.
In a lot of rural areas, the local yooves tend to take great delight in turning the signs. And a turned sign is defintely worse than no sign at all! Many’s the time I’ve headed off in the wrong direction thanks to a bit of late-night shenanigans.
No money in signs as they are put in by the NRA also the bank hopes to “return to sustainable profitability by 2014.” by robbing the less well off..
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