{"id":480170,"date":"2026-06-03T01:51:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T01:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/480170\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T01:51:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T01:51:16","slug":"rescue-operation-under-way-after-boat-sinks-in-carlingford-lough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/480170\/","title":{"rendered":"Rescue operation under way after boat sinks in Carlingford Lough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A rescue operation is under way after a fishing boat sank in Carlingford Lough on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Transport said the Coast Guard received a report the vessel was in trouble near Greencastle Point, Co Down, shortly after 12:30pm.<\/p>\n<p>One person was recovered from the vessel by a local boat and transferred into the care of HSE paramedics at Greenore harbour.<\/p>\n<p>A search was ongoing to recover a second person from the sunken vessel.<\/p>\n<p>The Greenore Coast Guard unit and the Rescue 116 helicopter took part in the search.<\/p>\n<p>Garda\u00ed said they were on the scene assisting the Coast Guard.<\/p>\n<p>The Marine Rescue Co-ordination Centre (MRCC) in Belfast was co-ordinating the response to the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A rescue operation is under way after a fishing boat sank in Carlingford Lough on Tuesday. The Department&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":480171,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-480170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480170","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=480170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}