Irish naval ship to drop Sally the turtle home on way to Med

A VIP passenger will be onboard LÉ Niamh when she departs her base next week for a three-month migrant rescue mission in the Mediterranean Sea.

Sally, a loggerhead sea turtle, is to be repatriated to warm waters off the Strait of Gibraltar by the ship’s crew after she was saved from almost certain death off the coast of Kerry.

Last April, a team of divers spotted the turtle, which looked the worse for wear, on the bottom of the sea near Fenit.