Stormy weather sees seals wash onto Irish shores

RELENTLESS winds are washing record numbers of starving baby seals onto our shores this winter.

Already, 62 seals aged between three and four months have been rescued, with some weighing less than when they were born.

Brendan Price, who runs the Irish Seal Sanctuary, said near-constant winds have scattered the lightweight seal cubs and have left them unable to feed properly.

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