13 whales have washed up on a beach in Co Donegal.
At least four of the pod are thought to have died on Falcarragh back strand.
Locals mobilised this morning to help the surviving whales - a number of whom have been refloated.
Councillor Seamus O'Donnell is on the beach;
Cllr O'Donnell says the community rallied together to come to the assistance of the whales.
Nine have been refloated, with three said to be in deep water.