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		<title>Lobster Season &#8211; Science and Sun</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2011 11:57:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Late spring and early summer is lobster (‘gliomaigh’) time in West Mayo, and a few weekends ago, the combination of sunny weather, street music and outdoor drinking meant there were plenty of happy gliomaigh to be seen enjoying the festival atmosphere at Féile Chois Cuain in Louisburgh. Further west, about 300 yards outside the beach, &#8230; <a href="http://irishmarinelife.wordpress.com/2011/05/24/lobster-season-science-and-sun/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=irishmarinelife.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8384188&amp;post=519&amp;subd=irishmarinelife&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The sun, the moon and the smart&#8230;..</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 May 2011 18:45:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[May is quite the month in Mayo for marine life. The big favourites come back and some of the smaller ones too. This year however, the combination of some unseasonably sunny weather and a mid-April full moon meant that Easter came late but some of our more remarkable and bigger animals turned up early. The &#8230; <a href="http://irishmarinelife.wordpress.com/2011/05/03/the-sun-the-moon-and-the-smart/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=irishmarinelife.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8384188&amp;post=514&amp;subd=irishmarinelife&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Colony</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2011 18:20:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a really nice piece we received this week from  Anthony Beese,   about a colony of Sand Martins at Red Strand (An Tráigh Dhearg),  Cork. It’s mid-April and the day is bright. There is a glare over the sea and a light offshore breeze cools the exposed shore. Fifty sand martins (Riparia riparia) wheel restlessly in &#8230; <a href="http://irishmarinelife.wordpress.com/2011/04/27/509/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=irishmarinelife.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8384188&amp;post=509&amp;subd=irishmarinelife&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Life&#8217;s not that sweet for Cockles&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2011 10:38:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A less-than-common shellfish caught our eyes this week; not on any shore – the weather has been too bad – but stacked in an attractive display inside a doorway on a busy street. Their double-shells and creamy golden ridges suggested confectionery, not at all unlike a very out-of-place mound of Ferrero Rocher. However, the distinctive &#8230; <a href="http://irishmarinelife.wordpress.com/2011/04/22/lifes-not-that-sweet-for-cockles/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=irishmarinelife.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8384188&amp;post=505&amp;subd=irishmarinelife&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Spring Blooms and Dolphins Exhibit on West Coast</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Apr 2011 15:52:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite the surprising but very welcome warmth of last week, which confirmed suspicions of winter’s demise and reassured us of summer’s not-too-far away sunshine and growth, this is actually the coldest time of year in our coastal waters. As we are reminded of what 17° feels like again, the wildlife (and dedicated humans) who inhabit &#8230; <a href="http://irishmarinelife.wordpress.com/2011/04/05/spring-blooms-and-dolphins-exhibit-on-west-coast/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=irishmarinelife.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8384188&amp;post=501&amp;subd=irishmarinelife&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Marine Litter and Some Cool Art</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2011 20:09:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Heres something cool we were sent this week - Third year art student from WIT , Mags Keane , for her art and environment project, investigated our coastal landscape and documented the pollution of our beaches from  flotsam and  jetsam to general household rubbish washed ashore or left behind by visitors to our beautiful coastal area. She &#8230; <a href="http://irishmarinelife.wordpress.com/2011/04/01/marine-litter-and-some-cool-art/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=irishmarinelife.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8384188&amp;post=495&amp;subd=irishmarinelife&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Clever Cuttlefish of Clew Bay</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Mar 2011 19:39:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We were momentarily stumped last weekend. The second most common question asked of a marine biologist (after ’what’s wrong with my goldfish’), is ’I found this on the shore, what is it?’. And we can usually make a confident identification and throw in some interesting information on the species for good measure. But when an &#8230; <a href="http://irishmarinelife.wordpress.com/2011/03/23/the-clever-cuttlefish-of-clew-bay/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=irishmarinelife.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8384188&amp;post=490&amp;subd=irishmarinelife&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Untidy Ingenuity in an Intricate Ecosystem</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Mar 2011 14:58:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Around a small blue rock which jutted out of the sand and buffeted from the beach by a cottage-sized sand dune, a collection of broken snail shells lay damaged and useless like cars piled irregularly on a scrap heap. The protagonists in this intriguing scene were terrestrial (land) snails, but the background to everything found &#8230; <a href="http://irishmarinelife.wordpress.com/2011/03/16/untidy-ingenuity-in-an-intricate-ecosystem/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=irishmarinelife.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8384188&amp;post=486&amp;subd=irishmarinelife&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thoughts on the death of a harbour seal</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Feb 2011 17:48:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; A stinking bloated corpse was the most interesting life on the beach this week. Beheaded by God knows what, the only clue to its identity was its flippers, now even more human-like as the fur, skin and fat had been stripped away to reveal the bones of a five digit ‘hand’. Around the headland, &#8230; <a href="http://irishmarinelife.wordpress.com/2011/02/23/thoughts-on-the-death-of-a-harbour-seal/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=irishmarinelife.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8384188&amp;post=476&amp;subd=irishmarinelife&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Marine Life&#8230;As a Way of Life</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The CAO deadline a week ago got some people in Mayo curious about marine life as a way-of-life, and led to a few queries in my inbox about pursuing studies in this field at third-level. It’s heartening to think of some of our local young adults as prospective marine scientists. But for them, it’s hard &#8230; <a href="http://irishmarinelife.wordpress.com/2011/02/08/marine-life-as-a-way-of-life/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=irishmarinelife.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8384188&amp;post=473&amp;subd=irishmarinelife&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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