Seal in Dun Laoghaire

[nickothesham]

There is a renegade seal at the mouth of DunLaoghaire Harbour who hangs around until you have a mackerel on the hook and then grabs it off the line. He followed us around all afternoon and got away with about 5 or 6

[twinkle]

they do that in howth all the time i seen the skipper of a charter boat at irelands eye entertaining the tourists by making the seal jump and take the macks out of his hand now i know why the seal jumped at me with the phone but they have this mugging down to a fine art the only thing is they some times pull the hooks with them wonder how they will digest them

[nickothesham]

There was one grey seal in Dun Laoghaire at the same thing last year and he had a large feather and hook embedded in his lip. It did not seem to bother him though. I also saw a large harbour seal eating what looked like a thornback ray of about 15 lbs just off the corner of the east pier. He was tossing it up in the air and biting off lumps. I was surprised to find one out at the wreck of the Bolivar on the Kish Bank.. He would not be long cleaning it out as they reputedly eat their own weight of fish every few days. Some of the seals around the bay were released from the seal sanctuary. These rescue orphan baby seals etc. and keep them until they grow, when they release them. These would be used to being fed by humans and more tame than usual

[twinkle]

was given the cure for seals yesterday a lad on a boat showed me how to get rid of them he bought a blackwidow sling
and some marbles the seal only appeared once he fired a marble it dident come back im buying one to morrow

[concancook]

I saw the seal eating the ray,it was on the corner of the east pier and it was tearing lumps off it.they have taken tope baits out on the kish on me,you get some run off a seal.the way i get rid of them is to bang the water with my boathook and they shag off.there would be some eating on a seal,i wonder what they taste like fishey beef mabey

[twinkle]

2 million eskimos cant be wrong but then again 6 million flies can

[brianbru]

they MUST be culled they attacked 2 swimmers at the forty foot recently.....i don't mind them eating people but not the fish.

[masterkeane]

they MUST be culled they attacked 2 swimmers at the forty foot recently.....i don't mind them eating people but not the fish.

cull them theyre a pain in the whole