For 37 years Fungie the dolphin has kept fishermen, tourists and locals company as he frolicks in the waves off the coast of west Ireland. The solitary bottleneck dolphin appeared in Dingle Bay, off ...

For more than two weeks, those living close to Dingle Bay in Ireland have been constantly scanning the sea for a glimpse of Fungie the dolphin. The adult male dolphin set up home in the bay, just off ...

A friendly bottlenose dolphin has been spotted off the coast of Kinsale in Cork of late. While many believed it to be the celeb dolphin Fungie, it would seem that the theory has been debunked. Fungie ...

Beloved Kerry dolphin Fungie has been spotted by fishermen off Dingle days after he was reported missing. The dolphin had not been seen since Monday, prompting fears for his welfare, but a local ...

HE was the dolphin that put Dingle on the map – but a whole year has now passed since Fungie vanished without a trace. Fears for the iconic male bottlenose dolphin were swirling since he disappeared ...

MISSING Fungie’s best pal has hit out at “awful” rumours the dolphin was been shot dead. The iconic male bottlenose went missing from his Dingle harbour home last October, with no sign since despite ...

Fungie the dolphin, perhaps one of Ireland’s most famous residents, has officially been added to the Guinness Book of World Records. On September 18, Guinness World Records ruled that Fungie is ...

In this age of lightning fast information, it's often the case that stories can be confirmed and then unconfirmed in a matter of moments. The nature of mass media is that unless there is hard proof of ...

On the cusp of another national Covid-19 lockdown and with a Brexit trade deal poised on a knife-edge, the nation was also vexed by the disappearance of an elderly bottlenose dolphin. Social media ...

"He is woven into the fabric and identity of the town." It's not every day that an entire town launches a search operation for a dolphin. But Fungie, a 37-year-mainstay of Dingle Harbour in County ...

Ireland was a depressing place in 1983. Unemployment, emigration, spiralling interest rates -- it was one bad news story after another. In October of that year a wild bottlenose dolphin decided to ...