Finding dinosaur fossils on the island of Ireland is harder than finding a "needle in a haystack", the curator of geology at National Museums Northern Ireland has said.

But the only two ever to have been found in the proverbial haystack will be on display in Cork for the next six months.

Fossil collector Roger Byrne found fossilised bones of two separate dinosaur species on the same beach in Islandmagee, County Antrim, more than four decades ago.

From Sunday, they will be on display as part of an exhibition at Glucksman Gallery in University College Cork (UCC), where for the first time the public can also see nearly 300 fossils from elsewhere.

The fossils are from 200 million years ago, meaning these dinosaurs roamed Earth during the Jurassic period.