{"id":200588,"date":"2025-12-19T18:44:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T18:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/200588\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T18:44:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T18:44:09","slug":"dead-dolphin-discovered-washed-up-on-carlow-riverbank-30km-from-the-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/200588\/","title":{"rendered":"Dead dolphin discovered washed up on Carlow riverbank 30km from the sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">The dolphin was found washed up on the banks of the River Barrow at St Mullins, approximately 30km from the sea\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A dolphin has washed up on the banks of the River Barrow at St Mullins in Co Carlow. Photo: Tony McGahan\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/a5bd0f81-edca-43f1-82ee-cc800d3d572d.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">A dolphin has washed up on the banks of the River Barrow at St Mullins in Co Carlow. Photo: Tony McGahan<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">After 20 years of living in St Mullins in Co Carlow, geoscientist Tony McGahan has never seen a dolphin swimming in the River Barrow, let alone a dead one washed up on the riverbank.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">But this week, he came across the carcass of a two metre long Common Dolphin washed up on the banks of the River Barrow in St Mullins, a staggering 30km from the sea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The dolphin was found washed up on the banks of the River Barrow at St Mullins, approximately 30km&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":200589,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[7499,61,60,82,263],"class_list":{"0":"post-200588","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-aisling-bolton-dowling","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-science","12":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}