{"id":518584,"date":"2026-06-25T23:59:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T23:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/518584\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T23:59:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T23:59:11","slug":"west-clare-organisation-secures-funding-boost-for-rare-whale-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/518584\/","title":{"rendered":"West Clare Organisation Secures Funding Boost For Rare Whale Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A West Clare organisation has secured funding to help researchers learn more about some of the least understood marine mammals in Irish waters.<\/p>\n<p>The funding will allow the Kilrush-based Irish Whale and Dolphin Group to continue its Deep Diving and Rare Species Investigation Programme for another three years.<\/p>\n<p>The project has already examined several rare species, including Ireland\u2019s first recorded narwhal and most recently, researchers investigated a mother-and-calf pair of Sowerby\u2019s beaked whales that stranded in County Galway.<\/p>\n<p>Head of the Shannon Dolphin Project with the group, Mags Daly, says the funding is vital for ongoing marine research.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the full interview here<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A West Clare organisation has secured funding to help researchers learn more about some of the least understood&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":518585,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[61,60,82,263],"class_list":["post-518584","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\/518584","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=518584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/518585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}