{"id":240252,"date":"2026-01-12T00:17:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T00:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/240252\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T00:17:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T00:17:10","slug":"oceans-gentle-spirits-pay-a-visit-to-corks-city-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/240252\/","title":{"rendered":"Ocean\u2019s gentle spirits pay a visit to Cork&#8217;s city centre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">A pod of dolphins was spotted in the River Lee in Cork\u2019s city centre on Saturday, attracting a lot of attention from passers-by.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Padraig Whooley of the Irish Whale and Dolphin Group told The Echo that it was not a totally unusual occurence.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/4927694_2_articleinlinemobile_Unknown-3.jpeg\" alt=\"One of the dolphins enjoying the Lee.\" title=\"One of the dolphins enjoying the Lee.\" class=\"card-img\"\/>One of the dolphins enjoying the Lee.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cIf the dolphins are fit and healthy, which they appear to be &#8230; 99 times out of 100 they manage to get themselves out of that situation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">&#8220;Members of the public, enjoy it and not try to interfere. Let mother nature run its course.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/4927697_2_articleinlinemobile_Unknown-1.jpeg\" alt=\"The pod of dolphins in the river.\" title=\"The pod of dolphins in the river.\" class=\"card-img\"\/>The pod of dolphins in the river.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">He added: &#8220;It is not an ususual event. Now I can name at least six rivers systems that have the same species of dolphin in it right now.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A pod of dolphins was spotted in the River Lee in Cork\u2019s city centre on Saturday, attracting a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240253,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[8932,61,60,43,121724],"class_list":["post-240252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-cork-city-centre","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-river-lee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240252","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=240252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}