{"id":409843,"date":"2026-04-21T10:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T10:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/409843\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T10:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T10:38:08","slug":"clean-up-operation-ongoing-after-oil-spill-at-dublin-port","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/409843\/","title":{"rendered":"Clean-up operation ongoing after oil spill at Dublin Port"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A clean-up is under way after a significant oil spill at Dublin Port.<\/p>\n<p>The incident took place at an operational berth on the east of the site at 8.05pm on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The fuel oil leak was stopped at source, and the spill is contained within a confined area, according to a statement from Dublin Port.<\/p>\n<p>The port\u2019s shipping channel is largely unaffected and containment booms have been deployed, with specialist contractors on site to manage and recover the material.<\/p>\n<p>The port\u2019s response teams are actively assessing and managing the situation in co-ordination with relevant authorities, including the Irish Coast Guard.<\/p>\n<p>Port customers, drivers and passengers are advised to follow advice from terminal operators.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Transport has been contacted for comment.<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A clean-up is under way after a significant oil spill at Dublin Port. The incident took place at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":409844,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[7941,615,43925,246,61,60,5006,43,119146,180097],"class_list":{"0":"post-409843","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-department-of-transport","9":"tag-dublin","10":"tag-dublin-port","11":"tag-environment","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-irish-coast-guard","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-oil-spill","17":"tag-oil-spill-at-dublin-port"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409843","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=409843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}