{"id":455494,"date":"2026-04-27T02:09:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T02:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/455494\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T02:09:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T02:09:19","slug":"dolphin-stranded-on-dublin-beach-dies-despite-rescue-attempt-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/455494\/","title":{"rendered":"Dolphin stranded on Dublin beach dies despite rescue attempt \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A dolphin that became stranded in south <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/dublin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/dublin\/\">Dublin<\/a> on Sunday has died despite an attempt to rescue and release it into deeper waters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The animal was first spotted and reported stranded on Sandymount Strand on Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">In a rescue operation at about 9am, the animal was brought ashore before being transported to Sandycove.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The rescue involved the D\u00fan Laoghaire coast guard unit, the Irish Whale and Dolphin Group and garda\u00ed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A spokesman for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/dublin-zoo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/dublin-zoo\/\">Dublin Zoo<\/a> confirmed it provided veterinary expertise and specialist equipment to aid efforts to rescue the dolphin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">However, despite the animal being relocated to deeper waters near Sandycove beach, it died a short time later.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Personnel from the Irish Coast Guard and volunteers from the Irish Whale and Dolphin Group on Sandymount Beach ahead of an attempt to rescue a stranded dolphin on Sunday morning. Photograph: Tom Honan\/The Irish Times\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/5RQ3LDIOUJFYZEEOF2BTF4XYAY.jpg\"   width=\"800\" height=\"533\"\/>Personnel from the Irish Coast Guard and volunteers from the Irish Whale and Dolphin Group on Sandymount Beach ahead of an attempt to rescue a stranded dolphin on Sunday morning. Photograph: Tom Honan\/The Irish Times <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A spokeswoman for the Department of Transport said the dolphin has since been transported to the veterinary hospital at University College Dublin, where a postmortem examination will be carried out to determine the cause of death.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cThe Irish Coast Guard would like to thank the members of the public who reported the incident and those who supported the Coast Guard crews during the operation,\u201d the spokeswoman said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A dolphin that became stranded in south Dublin on Sunday has died despite an attempt to rescue and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":455495,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[40],"tags":[9,10,52,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,68780,39175,7,8],"class_list":["post-455494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-dublin","tag-eire","tag-featured-news","tag-featurednews","tag-headlines","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-latest-news","tag-latestnews","tag-main-news","tag-mainnews","tag-news","tag-sandycove","tag-sandymount","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116474240839743193","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455494","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=455494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/455495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}