WHEN cage fighter Cathal Pendred steps into battle he is known as �The Punisher� but the tough guy is now being called a hero after he tried to save a dying dolphin.
The mixed martial artist spent an hour in the icy waters of the Atlantic on Sunday after the dolphin washed up on the west coast of Ireland.
Pendred, an Irish competitor in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), had attended a wedding the night before and was walking on the beach with his model girlfriend Michele McGrath when he saw a crowd gathered near the water
Unfortunately the dolphin didn’t make it.