{"id":445210,"date":"2026-05-12T16:19:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T16:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/445210\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T16:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T16:19:08","slug":"irish-man-in-late-30s-dies-in-ibiza-after-fall-from-cliff-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/445210\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish man in late 30s dies in Ibiza after fall from cliff \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">An Irish man in his late 30s has died in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/spain\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/spain\/\">Ibiza<\/a> after falling from a cliff.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The incident took place on Monday afternoon in the Calo de s\u2019Illa area on the north coast of the island.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The local Civil Guard unit said an investigation has begun and a spokesperson confirmed the incident related to a 39-year-old Irish national.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The Irish Times understands the incident is being treated as an accident and that the recovery of the body was carried out by air late on Monday and included firefighters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The deceased has not been named or identified by local authorities, in line with policy in Spain. It has not been specified whether the man was a holidaymaker or a resident of the island.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A female friend of the man is understood to have contacted emergency authorities late on Monday evening, but the man had died by the time first emergency responders reached him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Local Spanish newspaper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.periodicodeibiza.es\/pitiusas\/ibiza\/2026\/05\/11\/2627529\/fallece-hombre-tras-precipitarse-por-acantilado-ibiza.html?utm_source=Related&amp;utm_medium=internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Peri\u00f3dico de Ibiza y Formentera<\/a> reported that Civil Guard officers, as well as local police, firefighters and Civil Protection workers were mobilised in the recovery efforts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The operation to retrieve his body continued into the night on Monday, ending at about 8.30pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">An autopsy is due to take place in the coming hours.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The Department of Foreign Affairs and Spanish police have been contacted for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Irish man in his late 30s has died in Ibiza after falling from a cliff. The incident&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":445211,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1844,42,43,2846,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-445210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-department-of-foreign-affairs","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-spain","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445210","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=445210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/445211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}