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Donegal video footage uncovers amazing new discovery about basking sharks
by Stephen Maguire 6 years agoVideo footage taken of huge basking sharks off the coast of Donegal has uncovered an amazing new discovery. The huge…
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Watch: Basking sharks get up close and personal with BBC presenter!
by Elaine McCallig 8 years agoBBC Northern Ireland released an astonishing video of broadcaster Colin Stafford-Johnson going in search of basking sharks – and they even came…
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Concern as islanders cut off from mainland after basking shark “attacks”
by Stephen Maguire 8 years agoThe 150 residents of Tory Island have been cut off from the mainland for almost a week following several frightening…
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DDTV: See why Donegal waters are vital to survival of Basking Sharks
by Stephen Maguire 8 years agoDo you want to know why Malin Head and the Inishowen Peninsula is so important to the world’s Basking Shark…
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A unique basking shark conservation project backed by the European Space Agency is due to begin off the coast of…
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DDTV: AMAZING FOOTAGE OF BASKING SHARKS SWIMMING AT MALIN HEAD
by Stephen Maguire 9 years agoThere has been much debate about what places like Malin Head has to offer tourists coming to Donegal. But this…
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THREE large and beautiful basking sharks are pulling in the crowds to Malin Head. The area has been blessed by…
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HUGE AUDIENCE EXPECTED TO WATCH DONEGAL SHARK DOCUMENTARY ON CANADIAN TV
by Stephen Maguire 10 years agoA TV documentary about Donegal’s basking sharks is to be watched by millions of viewers across Canada today. Discovery Channel…
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MYSTERY AS DONEGAL’S ICONIC BASKING SHARKS DISAPPEAR FROM OUR COAST
by Stephen Maguire 10 years agoOne of Donegal’s most unusual summer visitors has disappeared and left scientists baffled as to why. In recent years our…
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GROUP PLEAD WITH MINISTER TO PROTECT GIANT BASKING SHARKS
by Stephen Maguire 10 years agoThe Donegal-based Irish Basking Shark Study Group has demanded Minister of Arts, Heritage, Gaelteacht and the Islands, Jimmy Deenihan to…
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THE DISCOVERY CHANNEL COMING TO DONEGAL TO FILM BASKING SHARKS
by Stephen Maguire 11 years agoThe Discovery Channel Canada has confirmed they are coming to Malin Head to film a program on Basking Sharks for…
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WORLD FIRST AS RESEARCHERS FIT CAMERA TO FIN OF DONEGAL SHARK
by Stephen Maguire 11 years agoShark researchers from Donegal are understood to have pulled off a world first after fitting a camera to the dorsal…
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A Dutch film crew got a little more than they bargined for when they went shark-watching off the Donegal coast.…
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DDTV – WHY INISHOWEN IS GETTING READY TO ‘BASK’ IN GLORY THIS SUMMER!
by Stephen Maguire 12 years agoInishowen wildlife officer Emmet Johnston just loves his work – and why wouldn’t he? The well-known co-ordinator of the…
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They’re back! The monsters of the deep have been spotted off the coast of Donegal. The county’s coastline enjoys a…
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BASKING SHARK CO-ORDINATOR SAYS DONEGAL CREATURES WILL BE BACK IN LARGE NUMBERS
by Stephen Maguire 12 years agoThe co-ordinator of Donegal’s Basking Shark Project says he hopes the magnificent creatures will return to our coastline in the…
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FREEZING TEMPERATURES SEES DONEGAL’S MOST FAMOUS VISITOR DISAPPEAR
by Stephen Maguire 12 years agoDonegal certainly isn’t “basking” in its Spring weather if Donegal’s most famous visitor is anything to go by. The freezing…
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TWO MORE DONEGAL BASKING SHARKS FOUND – 3,500 KMS APART
by Stephen Maguire 12 years agoTwo more basking sharks from Donegal’s Monster Munch project have released their archival tags. ‘Colm doesn’t Cille’ and ‘Bunagee Beauty’…
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DONEGAL SCIENTISTS ON VERGE OF DISCOVERING ONE OF SECRETS OF THE DEEP
by Stephen Maguire 12 years agoDonegal scientists may have cracked one of the great mysteries of the deep. Marine biologists working on the basking shark…