Probe into washed up seals in Cork as gunshot theory is dismissed

Concerns had been raised locally that the seal had been the victim of a gunshot

The body of a seal washed up at Ardnahinch beach.

The National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) is investigating cases of washed-up seals in Cork, as a seal welfare organisation dismissed concerns they are being shot.

The Irish Seal Sanctuary (ISS) said reports that a washed-up seal at Ardnahinch beach in East Cork was shot were wide of the mark, and that holes in the carcass were consistent with birds interfering with it after death.