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By *gentleman44 OP   Man
over a year ago

dublin

Has been missing for a while now,the people from dingle are devastated,as am I ,im wondering with covid,lockdown etc has he missed humans,gone off ,hopefully to find a girlfriend start a family and return!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The news really upset me, its a huge loss to Dingle if he doesn't return

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By *gentleman44 OP   Man
over a year ago

dublin


"The news really upset me, its a huge loss to Dingle if he doesn't return "
well let's hope he does dolphins usually live up to 60 year's they reckon fungi is about 40,I swam with him twice

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"The news really upset me, its a huge loss to Dingle if he doesn't return well let's hope he does dolphins usually live up to 60 year's they reckon fungi is about 40,I swam with him twice"

Lucky you! I only saw him a couple of weeks ago,fingers crossed he's ok.

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By *gentleman44 OP   Man
over a year ago

dublin


"The news really upset me, its a huge loss to Dingle if he doesn't return well let's hope he does dolphins usually live up to 60 year's they reckon fungi is about 40,I swam with him twice

Lucky you! I only saw him a couple of weeks ago,fingers crossed he's ok. "
I hope so,at least lot's of fishermen are out there searching for him

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I heard he's claiming the PUP Porpoise Unemployment Payment

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

It's really sad. My dad was down in dingle fishing a few weeks ago (against regulations cos he knows better apparently). He goes down with his mates every year for 2 weeks. There's this little beach they go to, and there's a house right above it. Every year when they're down there, a woman comes out of the house around dusk, swims out into the water and starts slapping the water really hard. And every time, fungi appears and swims around her. He said this was the first year in 10+ that the woman kept swimming out but there was no sign.

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By *gentleman44 OP   Man
over a year ago

dublin


"It's really sad. My dad was down in dingle fishing a few weeks ago (against regulations cos he knows better apparently). He goes down with his mates every year for 2 weeks. There's this little beach they go to, and there's a house right above it. Every year when they're down there, a woman comes out of the house around dusk, swims out into the water and starts slapping the water really hard. And every time, fungi appears and swims around her. He said this was the first year in 10+ that the woman kept swimming out but there was no sign. "
it's so sad well let's stay positive and hope he is ok and will return

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By *P_80Man
over a year ago

Waterford

I'm sure I saw he was found again the other day

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By *willfindyouWoman
over a year ago

Not looking to meet new peeps.


"I'm sure I saw he was found again the other day"
Na was all over the news this evening

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I'm sure I saw he was found again the other day"

He was spotted briefly on Thursday by a fisherman but no sign of him since and they gave up the search became of bad weather

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I heard he's claiming the PUP Porpoise Unemployment Payment "

Clearly he knew the lockdown was imminent, he's isolating

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"It's really sad. My dad was down in dingle fishing a few weeks ago (against regulations cos he knows better apparently). He goes down with his mates every year for 2 weeks. There's this little beach they go to, and there's a house right above it. Every year when they're down there, a woman comes out of the house around dusk, swims out into the water and starts slapping the water really hard. And every time, fungi appears and swims around her. He said this was the first year in 10+ that the woman kept swimming out but there was no sign. it's so sad well let's stay positive and hope he is ok and will return"

Ah I think he is OK. Probably just bored as fuck because he's not getting all of his usual visitors.

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By *P_80Man
over a year ago

Waterford


"I'm sure I saw he was found again the other day

He was spotted briefly on Thursday by a fisherman but no sign of him since and they gave up the search became of bad weather "

Ah right. Thought I was losing my marbles there

Hope he's alright

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I'm sure I saw he was found again the other day

He was spotted briefly on Thursday by a fisherman but no sign of him since and they gave up the search became of bad weather

Ah right. Thought I was losing my marbles there

Hope he's alright"

Hopefully 2020 is a big enough shit show as it is. We need some good news

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Sure he must be ancient. Id day he popped his clogs

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I heard they're only replacing his batteries for 2021

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By *P_80Man
over a year ago

Waterford


"Sure he must be ancient. Id day he popped his clogs"

Was just reading he's been here since 1983 but no one knows how old he is. The article also said that the oldest dolphin recorded was 68 so who knows?

Hopefully he has a few years left in him yet

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By *elboy1985Man
over a year ago

galway

Amazing that over the years they never tagged him so he could be traced when something like this happens. Hoping he comes back.

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By *gentleman44 OP   Man
over a year ago

dublin


"Amazing that over the years they never tagged him so he could be traced when something like this happens. Hoping he comes back. "

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

When Kaizer was but a young whippersnapper, the family Thunderkiss headed south on an exciting holiday adventure.

The highlight of course was going to see Fungie the Dolphin. We set off from the Killarney Ryan Hotel (back then every hotel was a Ryan Hotel).

When we got to Dingle, Papa Thunderkiss said he would arrange our voyage to meet this famous mammal.

Unfortunately all the chartered trips were booked out so ever the genius Papa approached a local fisherman, who for a fraction of the cost would bring the family TK to a personal meeting with Fungie.

This was a foolproof plan as the only difference was those chumps on their ships had to wear uncomfortable inconvenient life jackets.... Not us!

Anywho we blazed across the bay at a whopping 2 knots per hour. Poor Mama TK projectile vomiting into the h'Atlantic as well bounced up and down. Papa didn't care he was after saving a few quid.

We came to a halt, the boatman stood up and let out this squawk type noise. Suddenly Fungie leaped out of the water and started to splash and have the craic.

Staring at your hero, the young Manbeast got a wink off the dolphin who then squeaked "shiver me timbers".

The boatmen threw Fungie some shrimp and began to tell us stories of memories past of he and Fungie having some wild nights, I'm particular the 1988 Rose of Tralee.

Said Rose fell in love with Fungie and went on to have 3 kids with the bottle nosed lothario!

#truestory

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By *cottybear74Man
over a year ago

kilkenny

I believe said story

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I believe said story"

Forgive Kaizer's grammatical errors..... Its been a long day

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By *he SophisticatsCouple
over a year ago

Casa Del Fun

Word has it he’s been stuck in Dolphins Barn with some floozie and can’t get home because of the travel restrictions!

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By *isciplinAreeNMan
over a year ago

Dublin

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"The news really upset me, its a huge loss to Dingle if he doesn't return well let's hope he does dolphins usually live up to 60 year's they reckon fungi is about 40,I swam with him twice"

Sorry. As far as I'm aware , they roughly live till 40 and on occasion to 60. Fungi is a household name in Ireland . At the end of the day it's a wild animal, if it doesn't return so be it. I'm sure the dolphin will live long in the memory of many an Irish person. Not me unfortunately. Don't get me wrong , I love all nature. I wonder if human interaction was an influence on a usually social animal to be almost solitary

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By *he SophisticatsCouple
over a year ago

Casa Del Fun


"The news really upset me, its a huge loss to Dingle if he doesn't return well let's hope he does dolphins usually live up to 60 year's they reckon fungi is about 40,I swam with him twice"

Luca Brazzi was a fan too, but at least he’s still down there giving it socks with Fungis cousins

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Im a regular visitor to Dingle as its so close to where I live. Fungi has had a tremendous value to Dingle re visitors and local economy. Be very hard to replace that sort of income. Hopefully he will turn up but I think his age may well be against him

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By *-ManMan
over a year ago

Kark


"Im a regular visitor to Dingle as its so close to where I live. Fungi has had a tremendous value to Dingle re visitors and local economy. Be very hard to replace that sort of income. Hopefully he will turn up but I think his age may well be against him"

See its this is what gets on my goat about this story, nothing about the welfare of the animal, its all about how it will hurt Dingle and the loss of income to the area. They even got a sonar to search the harbor. When was the last time you heard sonar being used to search for ir a missing person? I'd say rescue 116

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I reckon john west got him

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By *gentleman44 OP   Man
over a year ago

dublin


"Im a regular visitor to Dingle as its so close to where I live. Fungi has had a tremendous value to Dingle re visitors and local economy. Be very hard to replace that sort of income. Hopefully he will turn up but I think his age may well be against him

See its this is what gets on my goat about this story, nothing about the welfare of the animal, its all about how it will hurt Dingle and the loss of income to the area. They even got a sonar to search the harbor. When was the last time you heard sonar being used to search for ir a missing person? I'd say rescue 116 "
I hope he's found a female and has a family,and has returned back to where he belongs in the wild ocean

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Somebody should get onto the Fisherman Father & Son from Galway to find him...

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By *asterandhissparklesCouple
over a year ago

tipperary

I just hope he didn't end up in a tuna can

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"It's really sad. My dad was down in dingle fishing a few weeks ago (against regulations cos he knows better apparently). He goes down with his mates every year for 2 weeks. There's this little beach they go to, and there's a house right above it. Every year when they're down there, a woman comes out of the house around dusk, swims out into the water and starts slapping the water really hard. And every time, fungi appears and swims around her. He said this was the first year in 10+ that the woman kept swimming out but there was no sign. "

Oh fuck ..that's definitely not a good sign

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By *elle xWoman
over a year ago

Doire Theas

Makes me very sad

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By *un4fun23456Man
over a year ago

ennis

Would u blame him no tourists in Kerry a Corkman running the country into the ground and the possibility of no All Ireland for Kerry this year I'd say he fecked off

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By *uperchampMan
over a year ago

dublin

Very sad. 2020 has been a ceeunextuesday!

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By *gentleman44 OP   Man
over a year ago

dublin


"Very sad. 2020 has been a ceeunextuesday!

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still no sign of him

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Shiver me timbers

We forgot about poor Fungie

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By *gentleman44 OP   Man
over a year ago

dublin


"Shiver me timbers

We forgot about poor Fungie "
yes indeed you did,but I didn't

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Shiver me timbers

We forgot about poor Fungie yes indeed you did,but I didn't"

God bless you Tarzan!

Spending all those nights over the past 3 months, tossing and turning. Frantically wondering where our beloved aquatic brother has gone to.

While the rest of us selfishly lived our lives and enjoyed Christmas

There's a place for you in Dolphin heaven, you beautiful selfless human being

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By *gentleman44 OP   Man
over a year ago

dublin


"Shiver me timbers

We forgot about poor Fungie yes indeed you did,but I didn't

God bless you Tarzan!

Spending all those nights over the past 3 months, tossing and turning. Frantically wondering where our beloved aquatic brother has gone to.

While the rest of us selfishly lived our lives and enjoyed Christmas

There's a place for you in Dolphin heaven, you beautiful selfless human being "
you say the nicest things

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Shiver me timbers

We forgot about poor Fungie yes indeed you did,but I didn't

God bless you Tarzan!

Spending all those nights over the past 3 months, tossing and turning. Frantically wondering where our beloved aquatic brother has gone to.

While the rest of us selfishly lived our lives and enjoyed Christmas

There's a place for you in Dolphin heaven, you beautiful selfless human being you say the nicest things "

Lets hope the poor bastard turns up, alright

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By *oo32Man
over a year ago

tipperary


"Shiver me timbers

We forgot about poor Fungie yes indeed you did,but I didn't

God bless you Tarzan!

Spending all those nights over the past 3 months, tossing and turning. Frantically wondering where our beloved aquatic brother has gone to.

While the rest of us selfishly lived our lives and enjoyed Christmas

There's a place for you in Dolphin heaven, you beautiful selfless human being you say the nicest things

Lets hope the poor bastard turns up, alright "

Kaizer.....what did you do with the dolphin

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By *gentleman44 OP   Man
over a year ago

dublin


"Shiver me timbers

We forgot about poor Fungie yes indeed you did,but I didn't

God bless you Tarzan!

Spending all those nights over the past 3 months, tossing and turning. Frantically wondering where our beloved aquatic brother has gone to.

While the rest of us selfishly lived our lives and enjoyed Christmas

There's a place for you in Dolphin heaven, you beautiful selfless human being you say the nicest things

Lets hope the poor bastard turns up, alright "

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Shiver me timbers

We forgot about poor Fungie yes indeed you did,but I didn't

God bless you Tarzan!

Spending all those nights over the past 3 months, tossing and turning. Frantically wondering where our beloved aquatic brother has gone to.

While the rest of us selfishly lived our lives and enjoyed Christmas

There's a place for you in Dolphin heaven, you beautiful selfless human being you say the nicest things

Lets hope the poor bastard turns up, alright

Kaizer.....what did you do with the dolphin"

Nuthin maaan, that fish is yesterday's news!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

It's such a pity and a loss to the community in dingle and surrounding areas of Ireland. I remember going down to go out on a boat trip to see fungi, we seen him at the end which was better than not seeing him at all. It's a much more exciting and slightly more risky being in the water with them in the water.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I heard he's claiming the PUP Porpoise Unemployment Payment "

Lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I heard he's claiming the PUP Porpoise Unemployment Payment

Lol"

But he's a dolphin?!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I heard he's claiming the PUP Porpoise Unemployment Payment

Lol

But he's a dolphin?! "

Ooops that's true, i must focus better .....

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By *og-ManMan
over a year ago

somewhere


"I heard he's claiming the PUP Porpoise Unemployment Payment

Lol

But he's a dolphin?!

Ooops that's true, i must focus better ....."

Has to be better than claiming the D.U.P unless hes moved up north

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I heard he's claiming the PUP Porpoise Unemployment Payment

Lol

But he's a dolphin?!

Ooops that's true, i must focus better ....."

That's okay, it's a common misconception

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By *elle xWoman
over a year ago

Doire Theas


"I heard he's claiming the PUP Porpoise Unemployment Payment

Lol

But he's a dolphin?!

Ooops that's true, i must focus better .....

Has to be better than claiming the D.U.P unless hes moved up north "

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By *osmicGateMan
over a year ago

louth


"Has been missing for a while now,the people from dingle are devastated,as am I ,im wondering with covid,lockdown etc has he missed humans,gone off ,hopefully to find a girlfriend start a family and return!"

I caught him few months back turned him into fish fingers.. Delicious

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

He's in South Leitrim with shergar I heard

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