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Pictured are some of the 20 swimmers from Shark Swimming Club Galway who have qualified for this year’s Swim Ireland Summer National Championships, taking place over the coming weeks in both the University of Limerick and the National Aquatic Centre, Dublin.

Over the past week, twenty-four white-tailed eagle chicks have been released in locations around the west of Ireland, Lough Derg, the Shannon Estuary as part of a long term reintroduction programme managed by the NPWS.

Killer whales are an iconic species in the world’s oceans. They are also at the top of the food chain and able to concentrate persistent pollutants to very high levels, a new study carried out by GMIT and the Marine Institute shows.