Black and white: Dolphin watchers confirm sightings of Spirtle off coast

There is a famous dolphin in our midst — Spirtle the sunburned Scottish dolphin has made her way down the east coast of Ireland and is now swimming off the Cork and Kerry coast.

Spirtle, a bottlenose dolphin from northern Scotland, became somewhat of a celebrity in May 2016, after she became stranded on mudflats and was very badly sunburnt, losing a lot of skin on the right-hand side of her back.