{"id":456536,"date":"2026-05-19T11:28:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T11:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/456536\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T11:28:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T11:28:14","slug":"whale-watching-events-to-take-place-at-two-mayo-locations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/456536\/","title":{"rendered":"Whale-watching events to take place at two Mayo locations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1779190094_24_imengine.public.prod.cmg.infomaker.io.jpeg\" alt=\"\" itemprop=\"image\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n    Published:<br \/>\n    Mon 18 May 2026, 1:30 PM\n  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ew-body\">The annual All-Ireland Whale Watch Day takes place next Saturday, May 23, from 5 to 7 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ew-body\">This year marks the 24th year that the Irish Whale and Dolphin Group (IWDG) has run this fantastic nationwide event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ew-body\">In Mayo, there two land-based whale watching locations where members of the public can attended:<\/p>\n<p class=\"ew-body\">* Benwee Head Car Park, Kilcummin<\/p>\n<p class=\"ew-body\">* Ashleam Viewing Point, Atlantic Drive, Achill Island<\/p>\n<p class=\"ew-body\">It\u2019s a great opportunity for people to experience the incredible whales, dolphins and porpoises found off our coast, while learning more about Ireland\u2019s marine wildlife from local IWDG volunteers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ew-body\">Check out this Facebook <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MayoIWDG\/posts\/join-us-on-our-public-all-ireland-whale-watch-day-in-co-mayo-where-we-have-two-l\/1299846202344493\/\" id=\"link-5f7be0ae903cc6bded9d0657032befcd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">link.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n    Published:<br \/>\n    Mon 18 May 2026, 1:30 PM\n  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published: Mon 18 May 2026, 1:30 PM The annual All-Ireland Whale Watch Day takes place next Saturday, May&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":456537,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[61,60,82,263],"class_list":["post-456536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456536","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=456536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/456537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}