{"id":419640,"date":"2026-04-27T08:19:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T08:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/419640\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T08:19:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T08:19:09","slug":"wexford-river-rescue-crew-defend-actions-during-floods-as-possible-reason-behind-garda-complaint-is-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/419640\/","title":{"rendered":"Wexford river rescue crew defend actions during floods as possible reason behind garda complaint is revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Tricia and Jude Delaney (4) in Enniscorthy town centre after the River Slaney burst its banks. Photo: Gerry Mooney.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/8a3c655a-72d2-44d2-ad13-c14f0af2b0ba.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Tricia and Jude Delaney (4) in Enniscorthy town centre after the River Slaney burst its banks. Photo: Gerry Mooney.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Slaney Search and Rescue has defended its actions during the flooding in Enniscorthy during Storm Chandra after it was suggested the reason behind a garda complaint centred on the lack of civilian lifejackets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">When the banks of the River Slaney broke in Enniscorthy during Storm Chandra earlier this year, volunteer members of Slaney Search and Rescue were quick to come to the aid of residents trapped in their flooded homes. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tricia and Jude Delaney (4) in Enniscorthy town centre after the River Slaney burst its banks. Photo: Gerry&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":419641,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43,15968],"class_list":["post-419640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-rachel-cahill"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419640","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=419640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}