One day in March (I think) 2007 I was walking along the beach at Magheraroarty when I came across a large crowd watching two diggers preparing a sandy grave for a beached whale. I had a portable camera, as one did in 2007. I am unsure what species it was. I hope this one didn’t have the fate of a 2015 juvenile sperm whale stranding.
Sadly this not exactly unknown on this coast:
Donegal County Council is investigating a dead whale washed up on Árainn Mhór island | Read more: https://t.co/oWCTgYCvmf pic.twitter.com/mBiFSLfOSk
— RTÉ News (@rtenews) November 7, 2017
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Sadness in Donegal as stranded whales perish | exa.mn5yb (RMC) pic.twitter.com/XoKGIs4hvd
— Irish Examiner (@irishexaminer) July 8, 2014
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A Minkie whale washed up on Narin strand, Portnoo in Donegal. Photo by Gerald McHugh. #sad #ireland pic.twitter.com/C30wjwSL2B
— The Irish News (@irish_news) June 7, 2015
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More positively:
Great shots of a pod of sperm whales 150 miles off the Donegal coast. Photos taken by the Irish Air Corps. pic.twitter.com/Q5gN5IMmUp
— Barra Best (@barrabest) September 7, 2014
Séamus Sweeney 