A file image of a humpback whale breaching in waters off the south coast. Photo: Padraig Whooley/Irish Whale and Dolphin Group/PA WireThe skeleton of a nine-metre humpback whale should be salvaged and put on display, a local representative has said. Last month the young humpback whale's body washed up on the west Cork coast after it had been stranded. Fianna Fáil’s Christopher O’Sullivan, TD for Cork South West, said a skeleton of a humpback whale would be “a great way of telling a story”. “A display like the skeleton of a humpback whale would be a great way of telling this story.

Source: Irish Independent March 16, 2021 12:48 UTC