A whale that was spotted swimming in the Liffey last week has been buried.

A whale that was spotted in the River Liffey this week has been found dead near Dublin Port.

Early last week, I went with a group of summer visitors for a morning’s whale-watching with Mark Gannon, owner-skipper of Courtmacsherry Atlantic Whale and Wildlife Tours.

The adult female sperm whale was found dead on Streedagh Strand earlier this week.

According to South Africa’s New Straits Times, a 51-year-old conservationist has become a second Jonah; he was swept into a whale’s mouth.

Seven dolphins and a sperm whale have been found dead in the past week along the Cork coastline.

Footage of two killer whales — orcas — taken off Dublin on Saturday showed the grace and power of these magnificent, but endangered animal

Whatever his many critics might say, the late Taoiseach Charlie Haughey had an ear for nature lovers.

Mystery surrounds the reason for the stranding of an unusually high number of whales along the west coast but given man’s growing propensity for polluting the oceans, human interference cannot be ruled out.

A whaling company in Iceland said it is preparing its fleet to bring back the commercial hunting of fin whales after a two-year freeze.

THE kraken of Norse legends and Scylla and Charybdis of ancient Greece were not just mythical beasts, writes Richard Collins.