{"id":159275,"date":"2025-11-25T18:45:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T18:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/159275\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T18:45:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T18:45:07","slug":"hopes-for-action-on-donegal-deer-population","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/159275\/","title":{"rendered":"Hopes for action on Donegal deer population"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s hoped that the new Deer Management Unit co-ordinator for Donegal will tackle the county&#8217;s deer population in an effective manner.<\/p>\n<p>It was announced this week that Ballyshannon native Declan Gillen is set to be in charge of coordinating the deer management strategy in Donegal.<\/p>\n<p>He will liaise with local hunters, farmers\/landowners, and other stakeholders in relation to deer sightings and hunting.<\/p>\n<p>His appointment comes against the backdrop of major concerns over the amount of deer in Donegal &#8211; with ongoing calls for army snipers to be drafted in to deal with the issue.<\/p>\n<p>Independent Cllr Michael McClafferty says it&#8217;s imperative that the matter is dealt properly once and for all:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s hoped that the new Deer Management Unit co-ordinator for Donegal will tackle the county&#8217;s deer population in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159276,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[61,60,82,263],"class_list":{"0":"post-159275","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}