The dolphin had made Dingle Bay his home for 37 years before going missing last October.
A commemoration day is being held in the Kerry town this weekend, as an appreciation for what he did for the area.
The common bottlenose dolphin became a symbol of Dingle and appeared on tourist trinkets, jewellery and shop fronts.
The search for Fungie the dolphin has been called off in Dingle, with locals fearing that he may now never return. Despite extensive searches over the past week, there has been no sign of the bottlenose dolphin | https://t.co/iRy920jn8Y pic.twitter.com/VXhiWzcEdZ
— RTÉ News (@rtenews) October 20, 2020
Adam Flannery is with Dingle Dolphin Tours - he says the last year hasn't felt real:
"Going down the harbour and not seeing fungie has been very, very strange. It's kind of like you expecting, every time you go down, it's like you expect him to come up and say hello and you just think he's still around there, but it just doesn't seem real. It's very strange.
