Giant walrus lands on the rocks at Valentia Island

It is thought he drifted across the Atlantic from the North Pole after falling asleep on an iceberg and landed on the rocks in Valentia Island off the coast of Kerry

A giant walrus on a Rock on Valentia Island in South Kerry. Alan Houlihan and Muireann aged 5 came across the Walrus while out walking on the beach. Picture: Alan Houlihan © Eye Focus LTD

A giant walrus the size of a dairy bull has landed on the rocks in Valentia Island in a rare sighting of the Arctic species in Ireland.

Local man Alan Houlihan and his five-year-old daughter Muireann spotted the flippered marine mammal breaching out of the water as they walked along Glanleam Beach on the Kerry island yesterday morning.