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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.
Baltimore Sea Safari / TwitterShort beaked Common #Dolphin & her calf #Baltimore West Cork #irelandswaw #westcork #dolphinwatching #wildatlanticway pic.twitter.com/CzJR14D8sK
— Baltimore Sea Safari (@BaltimoreSafari) August 23, 2014
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.
I don’t see the problem here. I support same sex marriage 100% but it it a free country. This means we all have freedom of speech. There are no wrong opinions. It’s the priest’s choice and rights to express his point of view. He doesn’t have to conform to main stream ideology.
@Tommy Chen: it is the opinion of most people that this priest is an asshat of the highest order.
@Tommy Chen:
Yes, it is a free country etc where people can hold whatever opinions they wish, however, from someone in his position within a community to be inciting such hatred so openly, it only takes one radical Christian lunatic to interpret that message in a particular way and then next we’ll have beatings and killings of homosexuals because “it’s a sin”.
As if the Catholic Church is so sacrosanct in the first place too. It’s been a hotbed of sin over the years with child abuse, mother and baby laundries, illegal adoption, beatings etc . So not only could the priests particular ideologies be interpreted in a particular way, it’s also incredibly hypocritical for him to be condemning something while representing an organisation that has done so much worse.
@Darren Anthony Corr: there’s people in every religion and every profession that did evil thongs to children. This man is entitled to his opinion. Who said anything about hatred only you .
@Jim Casey: things
@Tommy Chen:
Free speech is fine, using your position/platform to express your opinions unbeknownst to your audience….not so ok, which is why so many walked out of the church.
@Jim Casey:
The article in question is relating to comments made by a catholic priest, my comment was in relation to that. Whataboutery isn’t going to work here, it also adds nothing concrete just backs up my point really.
Nice try though.
@Tommy Chen: I agree.
I don’t agree with him at all, but I applaud his conviction to stand over his outdated views, despite the backlash he has brought on himself.
Sinful?
It’s the 21st century. No one believes that stuff any more.
He was only reading out the rule book, problem is they don’t want you quoting the rule book back to them cause it’s bad for PR
I don’t really understand the outrage. Those are the teachings of the Catholic Church. He’s a Catholic priest. If people don’t agree with those ridiculous, outdated beliefs they shouldn’t be part of a club that requires them to hold those beliefs
@Derek Walsh Ⓥ: spreading hate he was , even the powers that be in the Catholic Church are pulling away from that kinda behaviour
Why all the outrage. It’s not the Catholic Church’s job to agree with the prevailing ideology. Their job is to preach Catholic teachings and beliefs. That’s what this priest was doing. That’s what I would want to hear if I went to mass.
@Declan Dalton: the church should practice what they are preaching!!!
Not!!
The same guy put his support behind a sexual offender instead of the victim, He’s a hateful little man and shouldn’t be given the limelight he’s getting to spew his nonsense.
Odd, so many people disgusted with his comments, but still keep signing their kids up to the club. He is only reciting the long held views of his club, especially the leaders of it.
Yes, it is hateful, but you are happy enough to follow them so your kids can get a lovely day out whilst parents flash the largesse.
Hypocrisy on all sides.
He can take his backwards views and opinions and do one. People like that are a relic of the past and that’s where they belong in the past.
It used to be married couples who were told everything they did between the sheets was a sin. Now it’s same sex couples getting the “it’s a sin” treatment. I wish they’d just leave consenting adults to do as they please and concentrate their wrath on the real evil of sexual predators who prey on innocent children and shout about how sinful that is from the pulpit.
Selective reading and selective interpretation of the bible is the seed for disturbing individuals.
If the church has rules I think that’s fair enough and you either decide to follow the rules or not! But I think that it’s hilarious that the church can’t respect their own rules! Same-sex couples can’t marry in a church but heterosexual couples who are not allowed to have sex before marriage can get married in a church and even bring along their kids as proof that they did indeed have sex and have them even participate in the ceremony as flower girls etc. The church are a joke.
No mention of child sex abuse being a sin.
You’d be worried by those lads who think they have a direct line…..
He should be sacked from his job…
A belief system is something you can be almost be garanteed to be wrong about, unless it is backed up with an evidence based system.
Is sex with oneself a sin ?
Only because its been reported do I know about the comments and I care less about it if I never heard about it
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