Dingle Oceanworld urgently seeks State funding to remain open

Front L/R : Lisa Fitzgerald and Laura O’Connor . Back L/R : Maisie Hall and Edie Hall , all are Local students hope to be working at the aquarium. Picture: Domnick Walsh

The director of Ireland's largest aquarium fears they may have to shut their doors without a State rescue package to help to pay the huge bills to run their giant tanks.

Dingle Oceanworld - which is home to tiger sharks, loggerhead turtles and the country's only gentoo penguin colony - has overheads of around a million euros a year for fixed costs like massive power bills, staff, feed and veterinary bills.