{"id":384189,"date":"2026-04-06T04:55:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T04:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/384189\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T04:55:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T04:55:15","slug":"38-locals-brave-storm-dave-to-repair-access-to-ballymastocker-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/384189\/","title":{"rendered":"38 locals brave Storm Dave to repair access to Ballymastocker beach!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A large group of hardy locals braved Storm Dave yesterday to carry out vital repairs at an Inishowen beach.<\/p>\n<p>Access to the Warden beach at Ballymastocker has been massively restricted recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.donegaldaily.com\/2026\/03\/04\/warden-beach-at-ballymastocker-bay-closed-due-to-severe-erosion\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">due to severe coastal erosion<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Locals were forced to access the beach via an alternative route over the dunes, however the Fanad Coastal Group reached out to Donegal County Council to formalise a safe path through the dunes whilst the other entrance is restricted.<\/p>\n<p>Despite Storm Dave offering strong winds and heavy rain, a total of 38 locals showed up on Easter Sunday to help and install wooden fence poles and rope to mark out a formal entrance route to Warden beach, with the approval of the Council.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-628993\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/662458262_1270308441964381_4672606513849815944_n-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"1200\"  \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-628992\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/666760083_1270308748631017_8780613928468191871_n-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\"  \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-628991\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/666076095_1270308758631016_1577909416490036097_n-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"1200\"  \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-628990\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/667093614_1270308398631052_2922304057452301167_n-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\"  \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-628989\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/667271276_1270307881964437_2182404362337031248_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>The hardy group completed the works, giving up their Easter Sundays for the betterment of their community.<\/p>\n<p>Fanad Coastal Group thanked all who showed up in spite of the weather warnings for all of their hard work.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-628985\" class=\"size-full wp-image-628985\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/662645577_1270308631964362_4510989341305080372_n-scaled-e1775390664721.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"600\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-628985\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit \u2013 Fanad Coastal Group<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-628987\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/662002613_1270308608631031_1178550891341254112_n-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"554\" height=\"1200\"  \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-628988\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/666010648_1270308568631035_6452255706106081854_n-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"1200\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cOh my goodness! What a fabulous response from all points in the province!! Thank you so much for a great job done, under testing conditions and with great humour and conviction,\u201d they wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlease take a bow and enjoy your Easter! 38 people turned out to secure safe access to the beach whilst limiting damage to our precious dunes \u2013 a result!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>38 locals brave Storm Dave to repair access to Ballymastocker beach! was last modified:  April 5th, 2026 by Daniel Brennan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A large group of hardy locals braved Storm Dave yesterday to carry out vital repairs at an Inishowen&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":384190,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-384189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384189","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=384189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}