A stranded dolphin has been rescued after being washed up a deserted channel on a remote beach.

It began as a pebble in the shoe of the ECB, but yesterday the refuseniks of Ballyhea rang up the 100th march against the bailout, continuing a display of defiance that shows no sign of stopping.

When 69-year-old Francis Kennedy stepped onto flight EI105 from Dublin to New York last Friday it was the Co Tipperary man’s first time on a plane.