{"id":232737,"date":"2026-01-07T18:10:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T18:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/232737\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T18:10:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T18:10:06","slug":"west-clare-organisation-appeals-to-public-for-assistance-following-dolphin-rescue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/232737\/","title":{"rendered":"West Clare Organisation Appeals To Public For Assistance Following Dolphin Rescue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An organisation based in West Clare is urging the public to help it to prevent the deaths of marine life along the county\u2019s coast.<\/p>\n<p>Volunteers from the Kilrush-headquartered Irish Whale and Dolphin Group successfully re-floated eight dolphins in Ballyvaughan on Sunday after they swam into a dropping tide.<\/p>\n<p>It followed a similar incident on December 22nd when 28 found themselves in the same situation, with 21 assisted in returning to the ocean.<\/p>\n<p>The IWDG\u2019s emergency number for stranded live animals is 097 28118, and its Live Stranding Coordinator Gemma O\u2019Connor says no one without the proper training should try to help a whale or dolphin.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the full interview here<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An organisation based in West Clare is urging the public to help it to prevent the deaths of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":232738,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[61,60,82,263],"class_list":{"0":"post-232737","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\/232737","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=232737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}