{"id":536749,"date":"2026-07-07T02:43:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T02:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/536749\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T02:43:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T02:43:14","slug":"major-sea-search-off-north-mayo-coast-this-evening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/536749\/","title":{"rendered":"Major sea search off North Mayo coast this evening"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A major sea search is continuing off the north Mayo coast for a man believed to have fallen down a sheer 126 foot cliff while fishing on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The search for the missing man, a foreign national, is concentrated on an area off Downpatrick Head, close to the Dun Briste sea stack.<\/p>\n<p>The dramatic rock face is a popular if dangerous angling spot for shore anglers who congregate there regularly.<\/p>\n<p>Concillor Michael Loftus of the Grainne Uaile Sub Acqua Club and Mayo Search and Rescue Unit said this evening that the search, which started on Sunday, is continuing.<\/p>\n<p>Ballyglass RNLI Lifeboat is involved in the search and rescue effort which is continuing in mixed weather conditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a0 A major sea search is continuing off the north Mayo coast for a man believed to have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":536750,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-536749","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\/536749","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=536749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/536750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}