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One of the seals found on Tramore Beach earlier this week Irish Seal Sanctuary

Dolphin and seal found dead on Waterford beach

The animals had injuries consistent with gunshot wounds – just days after two other seals were found shot dead on the same beach.

A DOLPHIN AND a seal have been found dead on a Waterford beach, days after two seals died after being shot on the same beach.

The wounds to the two animals found on Tramore Beach yesterday are believed to be consistent with gunshot wounds.

A spokesperson for the Irish Seal Sanctuary said that the deaths appear to be an illegal cull and called on the regulatory authorities to carry out post-mortems on the animals to determine the exact cause of death. Some fisherman in the area have called for a cull of seals.

All marine mammals are protected under European law, and Ireland’s territorial waters are a declared whale and dolphin sanctuary.

“We’re working with the fisheries industry to try to resolve this,” Johnny Woodlock of the Irish Seal Sanctuary told TheJournal.ie.

“We’re not against a properly regulated cull but it’s the guy who goes out with a shotgun and takes potshots, that’s what we’re against”.

The two seals found earlier this week had to be euthanised after they were found with “horrific” injuries on Tramore Beach.

A number of groups, including the Irish Wildlife Trust, the Irish Whale and Dolphin Group and the Waterford SPCA are monitoring the situation.

Previously: Two seals found shot at Tramore beach >

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    Feb 26th 2019, 8:42 AM

    @Ann Lennon:
    From reading this and other articles, it would appear that the “fall from grace” was in his mind.
    A much more pertinent question, was the councillor with with whom he had 10 sessions suitably qualified to determine whether Hawe was a danger to himself or his family? I think “the two felt a connection.” is an extraordinary statement.

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    Feb 26th 2019, 9:44 AM

    @John Jones: the point is they don’t know. The gardai won’t release the files and the school has never once contacted the family.

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    Mute James Wallace
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    Feb 26th 2019, 11:32 AM

    @John Jones: no, not a deliberate cover up, but the family are entiteled to some answers to their legitimate questions. The fact that the school has never contacted these people is not speculation, it’s fact, according to them.

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    Feb 26th 2019, 10:32 AM

    Tragic and cruel, but there are far too many experts on here giving their twopence worth.If only mental health was that easy to diagnose,leave it to those that have some idea what they are talking about .

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    Feb 26th 2019, 10:41 AM

    @Anthony Gallagher: well obviously they didn’t in that case.

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    Feb 26th 2019, 10:46 AM

    @James Wallace: Do you think theres a cover up. I think it’s sad how there’s a massive slight being put on the school based on pure speculation.

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    Feb 26th 2019, 2:18 PM

    @CrabaRev: I dont think it’s true to say the fall from grace was in his head. From the Independent.

    He has said in his own words that he was caught red-handed and we do know that he was looking at pornography….

    “We’ve had sight of the counselling notes and he had said he was masturbating somewhere that he shouldn’t have been… So we have pieces of information but we don’t know who caught him.
    “We do know, in the June, he cancelled all his counselling sessions and this all happened the day before he was to return to school,” she said. “He said that it was easier for them to die than to have to live with the truth of what he was doing.”

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    Feb 26th 2019, 8:10 PM

    @Jane: The counselor said that he said this?? She was in a position to go to gardai with this information; patient confidentiality goes out the window when there is a real risk to life. Did she pass this information onto the guards before the murders?

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    Feb 26th 2019, 4:54 PM

    @Jane: I replied to your comment, but my comment was deleted for some weird Journal.ie reason. What you have just quoted from the Indo was a quote from Clodagh’s sister.

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    Feb 27th 2019, 12:19 AM

    It seems it is about the will, and who gets what! Which family benefits from the assets left over…I was wondering why this case had come up again. It is petty infighting between family…..over the assets left behind…

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    Feb 27th 2019, 12:57 AM

    @GerryCummins: would you ever stop. This is a broken, devastated family looking for answers.

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    Feb 28th 2019, 4:33 AM

    This Family needs answers, why do they not have the full story. Release all records if you will not share the truth. That councillor statement is bizarre, and a big worry if you ask me. Badly done school. I say wow Mammy, Sister, Granmother, and Aunt you are now fighting for the defenseless I really hope you get your answers. Why O Why

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    Feb 27th 2019, 12:40 AM

    My comments are constantly removed, who is behind that? Is my personal information being given to cronies..

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