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FUNGIE, THE RENOWNED Dingle dolphin is reportedly recovering from a bad gash to his back.
The dolphin, which has been a major tourist attraction in the Kerry town since first appearing in the local waters in 1983, was noticed to have a ‘deep gash’ on the right hand side of his back by local boatmen yesterday.
The source of the injury is unknown, although possible causes could be a boat-propeller, a rock, or even another dolphin.
Fungie has been known to recover from such injuries in the past.
“I just noticed yesterday on one of the tours that he had a gash on his back,” Jimmy Flannery Junior, chairman of the Dingle Boatmen’s Association, earlier told Newstalk.
It’s not unusual though. It happens every now and again. It does appear to be healing very quickly though.
Flannery suggested that the injury may have come from the amount of activity in the Dingle Bay area due to the fine weather.
Bottlenosed dolphins of Fungie’s ilk are generally expected to live for between forty and fifty years.
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Thoughts and prayers are with him and his family
Rip dingle
Serves him right the vicious little fu(ker
Jesus Christ, Top Gear sucks balls – Your twitter account
Thoughts and prayers are with you and your family
I love how the last paragraph was stuck in there to answer the obvious question of whether it’s still the same dolphin or Kerry-folk pulling the wool over our eyes after all these years.
A dolphin can live for up 55 years so it’s possibly the same one. Not probable though but possible.
I always assumed that it wasn’t a specific dolphin and the locals regularly changed it like your parents secretly did with your goldfish when it went belly up
“A dolphin can live for up 55 years so it’s possibly the same one. Not probable though but possible.”
Rubbish
Fungi is the Jackie Healy Rae of the sea, but much smarter than Healy rae ever was.
a guy who wears superman underpants
Bit o’ flat 7up and he’ll be grand
I wish people would just let fungi be fungi…the way humans make money from wildlife. How much of it do they put towards their protection.
Sparky..the giys in dingle who fo the boat tours, go above and beyond to make sure fungi is ok. You can come back with some cynical answer but you havent been in dingle, the guys on the boats are his best friends, and all of them are his best minders. They are the best in the world. And just one thing..fungi made dingle his home. He wasnt shepperd or coerced, he decided. And the boatsmen of dingle respected thst
Fungi is free to leave anytime mate
Jenni…i agree…ive been out there.
Jenni…why would I come back with a cynical answer. My question was about wildlife and humans fixation with it..without fungi those guys wouldn’t have a tour,how much of their profits do they put back to conserve the natural wildlife ,I’m sure fungi goes to bed thinking of them.
Yea he is Mexican gulf stream has a lot to answer for..
Sparky he is free to move on any time, he’s a solidarity dolphin that couldn’t survive in a pod and is quite content with the interaction with humans.
He has done a lot for dolphins in that more people are aware and have a fondness for him and thus want to see dolphins treated well. Boo Japan
Nicely put , Jenni. .
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Fungi is free to leave anytime mate
Are you living in Mayo or Dingle ?
I’m sure he is very much loved. The only thing I’d say is that the level of diesel pollution from marine engines, and the litter in the sea needs to be addressed.
Does it matter ?
Lots of hate on here for a dolphin? Wow!
Less jokes more help for fungi lovable rogue dolphin
Fungi the 6th but don’t tell the Americans
Hmm Shane nope //
indeed you sound like a Donald Trump fan
Mugging?
A funny thing (maybe not)
when I was in Dublin for the Springsteen concerts I was appalled with the homeless problem …
https://photos.smugmug.com/News-Media-Items/i-dxQQNWV/0/X2/P1320227-X2.jpg
then I see the see the comments posted here concerning Fungie
“Serves him right the vicious little fu(ker”
“Fungi is free to leave anytime mate” – do I know this guy ?
“Rip dingle ”
Enough said
a Non story
Well when you have a town with 2 names (an dangen knee tushe ) its no surprise to have 6 dolphins with 1.
And yes, I know thats not how to spell it for all you outraged ban an ti’s
Your Twitter account is just set up for this ?
“Just commented on @thejournal_ie:”
My missus also has a deep gash
Over hype story …
Anyone got sudo cream for that?
Sort it out
Sound advice WTF
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