{"id":502099,"date":"2026-06-16T07:29:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T07:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/502099\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T07:29:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T07:29:09","slug":"wexford-kayaker-battles-six-week-challenge-around-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/502099\/","title":{"rendered":"Wexford kayaker battles six-week challenge around Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/5f54916d6e81c.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Wexford man Damian Furlong is taking on an incredible 1,450-kilometre kayaking challenge around the entire coastline of Ireland in memory of his late brother Neville.<\/p>\n<p>Already well into the six-week journey, Damian has battled tough conditions, covered huge distances and raised more than \u20ac11,000 for St Francis Hospice &#8211; far exceeding his original target.<\/p>\n<p>Damian says he hopes this challenge will honour Neville&#8217;s memory while raising funds for a worthy cause.<\/p>\n<p>He spoke to South East Radio about the journey so far as he remembered his brother fondly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wexford man Damian Furlong is taking on an incredible 1,450-kilometre kayaking challenge around the entire coastline of Ireland&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":502100,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3279,319,61,60,2673,1529,8284,43,700,151809,9270],"class_list":["post-502099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-broadcast","tag-broadcasting","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-irish-news","tag-local-news","tag-local-radio","tag-news","tag-radio","tag-south-east-radio","tag-wexford"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502099","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=502099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}