{"id":44744,"date":"2025-09-26T14:19:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T14:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/44744\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T14:19:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T14:19:07","slug":"four-fishermen-rescued-after-boat-sinks-off-west-donegal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/44744\/","title":{"rendered":"Four fishermen rescued after boat sinks off West Donegal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four people have been rescued after a fishing boat sank off Bloody Foreland.<\/p>\n<p>The incident happened in the early hours of yesterday morning.<\/p>\n<p>A distress call was sent out from a fishing vessel in distress and was picked up by the Maritime Rescue Sub Centre in Malin.<\/p>\n<p>A number of emergency service units responded and rushed to the location.<\/p>\n<p>They included the Rescue 118 helicopter, Bunbeg Coast Guard Unit and the Arranmore lifeboat.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/unnamed-3-1.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-cGVuY2ktZ2FsbGVyeS1pbWFnZS1jb250ZW50\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-608831\" class=\"size-full wp-image-608831\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/unnamed-3-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"456\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-608831\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The fishing vessel from which four fishermen were rescued between Magheraroarty and Curransport. Picture by Owen Clarke.<\/p>\n<p>However, all four fishermen on board the vessel were plucked to safety by a passing vessel.<\/p>\n<p>All four were then returned to Magheraroarty Pier.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for the Irish Coastguard told Donegal Daily \u201cJust after midnight on Thursday 25th September the Maritime Rescue Sub Centre Malin was alerted to a fishing vessel sinking to the east of Bloody Foreland.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Sligo based Coast Guard helicopter R118, Bunbeg Coast Guard Unit, Aranmore lifeboat and vessels in the vicinity responded.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll four persons on board were rescued by a passing vessel and landed at Magheraroarty pier.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Four fishermen rescued after boat sinks off West Donegal was last modified:  September 26th, 2025 by Staff Writer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four people have been rescued after a fishing boat sank off Bloody Foreland. The incident happened in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44745,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-44744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44744","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=44744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}