{"id":386240,"date":"2026-04-07T11:33:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T11:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/386240\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T11:33:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T11:33:08","slug":"fire-causes-extensive-damage-at-wexford-stables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/386240\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire causes extensive damage at Wexford stables"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A fire has caused extensive damage to a stables Co Wexford.<\/p>\n<p>One horse died in the fire while a number of other horses were removed safely.<\/p>\n<p>The fire broke out last night at the stables in the Ballykelly area, which is located around 8km south of New Ross. <\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for Wexford County Fire Service said two units and a water tanker from New Ross and a further unit from Wexford attended the scene at Ballykelly, New Ross, after they were alerted to the fire just before 9pm.<\/p>\n<p>The spokesperson said: &#8220;On arrival, a large hay shed containing straw, hay and agricultural machinery was involved in a substantial fire.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Firefighters worked long into the night before bringing the blaze under control into early hours of the morning.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The scene is currently under control of the garda\u00ed and subject to investigation, therefore we have no further comment at present,&#8221; the spokesperson added.<\/p>\n<p>While investigations into the cause of the fire remain at an early stage, it is understood that foul play is not currently suspected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A fire has caused extensive damage to a stables Co Wexford. One horse died in the fire while&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":386241,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-386240","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\/386240","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=386240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}