Dead whale calf washes ashore in humpback stranding in West Cork

This is only the second such stranding of a humpback whale ever recorded in Cork, according to the Irish Whale and Dolphin Group.

The male whale measured 10 metres in length and the IDWG said it was not an individual previously documented in Irish waters. Picture: IDWG via Robbie Shelly and Helen Tilson of SchullSea Safari

A young dead whale has washed up and been stranded off the West Cork coast.

The humpback whale came ashore off Coney Island, west Roaringwater Bay yesterday afternoon.