{"id":48892,"date":"2025-09-28T14:46:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T14:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/48892\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T14:46:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T14:46:09","slug":"fisherman-lost-his-life-doing-what-he-loved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/48892\/","title":{"rendered":"Fisherman ‘lost his life doing what he loved’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"TheThe Skipper magazine<\/p>\n

Kevin McCloskey had been missing since Thursday evening after his boat ran aground off the Sligo coast <\/p>\n

A fisherman who died after his boat ran aground off the Irish coast has been named locally as Kevin McCloskey from County Donegal. <\/p>\n

His body was found by a fishing crew on Saturday evening<\/a> after an intensive three-day search operation led by the Irish Coast Guard.<\/p>\n

Mr McCloskey was a former chairman of the Killybegs Fishermen’s Organisation (KFO) and it has described his death as a “tragedy for the whole fishing community”. <\/p>\n

It said he “lost his life doing what he loved, fishing”, adding that he was “noted for his positive outlook on life”. <\/p>\n

Mr McCloskey served as KFO’s chairman in 2002 and he was also a former board member. <\/p>\n

The organisation said he was “a respected and experienced fisherman” having worked all his life in the industry.<\/p>\n

The Irish minister for fisheries and the marine, Timmy Dooley, said his thoughts and prayers were with the family and friends of Mr McCloskey on “this difficult day”.<\/p>\n

“His loss, while at sea serves as a reminder to us all of the daily challenges faced by fishermen and women as they work in such a high-risk environment,” he added.<\/p>\n

Mr McCloskey had been missing since Thursday. <\/p>\n

A member of the public raised the alarm at about 20:00 local time (20:00 BST) that evening after spotting a boat aground with its engine still running off Cliffoney Beach in County Sligo. <\/p>\n

\"TheThe Skipper magazine<\/p>\n

Kevin McCloskey owned his own fishing boat, the FV K-Mar-K<\/p>\n

The emergency services then began a multi-agency search<\/a> with the rescue co-ordination centre based in Malin Head, County Donegal.<\/p>\n

An Irish Coast Guard helicopter from Sligo was deployed in the operation along with RNLI lifeboats and a number of merchant vessels and local boats.<\/p>\n

‘Recovery at least brings some closure’<\/p>\n

His body was recovered off the port village of Teelin on the County Donegal coast just before 18:00 local time on Saturday. <\/p>\n

The discovery was made by a local fishing vessel which was involved in the search. <\/p>\n

The Coast Guard sent its sympathy to Mr McCloskey’s family. <\/p>\n

It also thanked “all the search units and local fishing vessels, An Garda Siochana (Irish police) along with the community for their support throughout the search”.<\/p>\n

The KFO also thanked the search teams, saying: “Recovery at least brings some closure to what is a tragedy for the whole fishing community.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Skipper magazine Kevin McCloskey had been missing since Thursday evening after his boat ran aground off the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48893,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-48892","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\/48892","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=48892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}