{"id":518087,"date":"2026-06-25T17:41:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T17:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/518087\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T17:41:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T17:41:10","slug":"the-aa-names-fenit-irelands-best-beach-for-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/518087\/","title":{"rendered":"The AA names Fenit Ireland&#8217;s best beach for 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The motoring organisation The AA has named Fenit Ireland&#8217;s best beach for 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The study ranked 228 Blue Flag beaches across the UK and Ireland, assessing factors including water quality, sunshine hours, lifeguard provision, parking costs and visitor reviews.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiokerry.ie\/news\/fenit\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fenit beach<\/a> placed eighth overall across the UK and Ireland, while Clogherhead Beach in Louth was the only other Irish beach to break into the top 20 (at 14th).<\/p>\n<p>Fenit was praised for its calm waters, free parking, excellent water quality and nearby RNLI lifeboat station.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theaa.com\/breakdown-cover\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The AA says the findings<\/a> are intended to help families plan safe and enjoyable seaside trips during the summer holidays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The motoring organisation The AA has named Fenit Ireland&#8217;s best beach for 2026. The study ranked 228 Blue&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":518088,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[220973,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-518087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-fenit-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518087","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=518087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/518088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}