{"id":293038,"date":"2026-01-20T00:11:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T00:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/293038\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T00:11:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T00:11:07","slug":"seal-saved-on-corbally-baths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/293038\/","title":{"rendered":"Seal saved on Corbally Baths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<br \/>\n        &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n        &#13;<\/p>\n<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" width=\"696\" height=\"928\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Seal-rescue-696x928.webp.webp\"   alt=\"\" title=\"Seal rescue\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>LIMERICK City and County Council\u2019s Environment team received an unusual call recently regarding a seal on the Corbally Baths.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The seal had been present for a few hours when Susan Kerwin from Bat Rehabilitation came along and aided Council staff to get the seal into a large animal transporter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis involved holding torches and using blankets to usher the seal into the carrier,\u201d the Limerick Post was informed of the December 23 rescue.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Kerwin explained that the seal was approximately three to four months old. The seal then made his journey to Portlaoise where it will be looked after.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<a onclick=\"\" class=\"gofollow\" data-track=\"MjgwLDIsMSw2MA==\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/p\/The-Still-House-Bar-100063718116107\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"330\" height=\"208\" onload=\"\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" style=\"width:auto;\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/stillhouse-artboard-new.gif\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n    <strong>Signup for the Limerick Post newsletter<\/strong>&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were delighted to be able to give some assistance and to ensure the safe relocation of the seal,\u201d the Council said.<\/p>\n<p>        &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n        &#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<br \/>\n            &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n                                                        &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; LIMERICK City and County Council\u2019s Environment team received an unusual call recently regarding a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293039,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[273],"tags":[4232,145954,21989,18,19,17,133,20324,461],"class_list":["post-293038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-animal-welfare","tag-corbally-baths","tag-council","tag-eire","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-science","tag-seal","tag-wildlife"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115924532128081991","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}