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CROWDS GATHERED IN watch as a pod of dolphins were spotted swimming down the River Lee in Cork, with one local videographer calling it “an amazing sight to see”.
Social media footage shows people lining the river along George’s Quay and Father Matthew Quay on Saturday as the dolphins swam by from daylight hours into dusk.
Dolphins and orcas have previously been spotted swimming along the River Lee, but sightings are rare.
When Cork-based videographer Ryan Lynch, 27, heard dolphins had been spotted in the river, he grabbed his drone to film them swimming slowly as the sun set.
He captured aerial footage showing the small pod of dolphins’ backs slowly emerging and disappearing in the water, which he uploaded to his Instagram account @ryanlynch_rl.
Lynch said he was “relaxing at home” when his girlfriend showed him a video from a local Instagram account of “dolphins swimming in up the River Lee quite close to the city hall”.
“I’ve lived in Cork for a number of years but I’ve never seen dolphins come in this far to the city, although I’ve heard it isn’t the first time,” he told the PA news agency.
“I didn’t put much thought into it and grabbed my drone and headed straight in.
“I went to a location first where I thought they would be and put the drone up but couldn’t see them.”
Lynch then spotted “a big crowd of people” by the river so drove to the location and ran to get his drone up.
“The first shot I took was my favourite, which was the dolphin jumping out of the water with the city lit up with a beautiful sunset in the background,” he said.
It was an amazing sight to see.”
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And that was our Summer!
@C H: Not had for Spring, though!
Best of luck to Leixlip/Lucan in their walk today to save St Catherines Park! The gov and councillors doing nothing to destroy this amenity and the area of Leixlip
@C H: how else are things in the future CH? Because it’s still splittin the stones here. Any chance of next week’s Lotto numbers PM me for God’s sake don’t post ‘em.
@C H: Jeeze. There’s three months of actual summer still to go! There’s been more sun in the last week than you’d usually get in almost a month in Dublin. We’re not doing too badly.
Any longer and the Government will stick a Tax on it
@cormac o neill: Government blah blah ….do this….. blah blah do that …….change the bloody record.
@cormac o neill: enjoy the sun misery guts……
@cormac o neill:
Always someone who brings the Government into it
@cormac o neill: sap.
Journal will you please do a fact check and find out if there’s good drying out. Thanks
@Matty kinevan: yep there is did two loads of washing and dried the lot for free on the line between the garage and the ESB pole. Then made a pot of nettle tea friend of mine countryman showed me how to pick just the tips of the nettles from the ditch between ours and next field without getting stung. I mentioned to him an article read in the Journal this week and he said O yes my mother in law swore by it and I offered my mother a cup and she said God my grandfather swore by it so we all had some. Lovely. And free drying. Couldn’t be better unless found a way to make the washing machine work for free too.
@John O’Driscoll: I’ve made nettle soup a few times. Very nice, similar to spinach. Try a schneaky extension lead going into your neighbours gaff and run the washing machine off that. Bish bash bosh.
@Matty kinevan: what extension lead? It’s an 1892 model. My elderly mother cranks the handle and the drum and mangle goes round with my clothes in. The cast iron’s getting a bit heavy for her now she’s nearly in her 80s but I should get a few years more out of her yet. It’s feedin’ her in between washes is the cost. So you were saying about nettle soup like spinach again is there a recipe you can give me?
relax it its a sunday , chillax shoot the breeze
@Seamus Davey: What breeze?
@Paraic McDonagh:
Grand breeze here on curacloe beech
Was going to do a bit of sanding and varnishing round my mum and late dad’s home today but a friend who’s more church-going than me said ”It’s not a cow caught in a ditch. Relax it’s Sunday.” In Israel you can’t even press the buttons on a lift so suppose driving down to the village to get a few beers to split with my mother and sister is a mortaller in some views. Take me chances. Great excuse for lazin on a sunny Sunday afternoon. Sometimes religion makes a jot or tittle of sense.
Some belter of a day. Can’t wait to see all the cider heads with the big red raw heads in work tomorrow. “Bar garden weather bud”
@Science of beer: Big pint of water and two Solpadeines no probs mate. Make sure it’s not a small pint is all.
@John O’Driscoll: Before bed as in.
Its 23 here.
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