When Ireland entered one of the world’s most restrictive pandemic lockdowns in early 2020, Jimmy Flannery was worried how one of his best friends would cope. Fungie, a bottlenose dolphin, had been ...

A Dingle tourist favorite, the playful bottlenose dolphin has broken a historic record as the longest living solitary dolphin in world history Fungie is officially the longest living solitary dolphin ...

On Monday, locals called off the search for Fungie the Dolphin, due to back weather. The beloved local legend has been missing for nearly a week. For 37 years Fungie the Dolphin has entertained the ...

The legacy of Fungie the dolphin is visible everywhere in the seaside town of Dingle. From souvenirs stacked on shop shelves to being immortalised in a bronze statue at the harbour front, the story of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. We were cold. We were wet. We’d been on the water in Dingle Bay for an hour and hadn’t seen a single dolphin — or, rather, the ...

Named Fungie, the cetacean draws thousands of tourists to Dingle—and may teach us how to protect other solitary-sociable animals in the wild Cathleen O'Grady, Hakai Magazine Nobody knows when Fungie, ...

DINGLE, Ireland — The summer visitors have gone, and the winter rains and wind have reclaimed County Kerry, a remote and beautiful region in the southwest of Ireland. But the residents of Dingle, ...