{"id":545885,"date":"2026-07-12T12:55:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T12:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/545885\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T12:55:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T12:55:13","slug":"boy-15-dies-after-getting-into-difficulty-in-water-in-westmeath-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/545885\/","title":{"rendered":"Boy (15) dies after getting into difficulty in water in Westmeath \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A teenage boy has died after getting into difficulty in water at Lough Ree in Co <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/westmeath\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/westmeath\/\">Westmeath<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Garda\u00ed and emergency services responded to the incident in the water at Carnakilla Point, Glasson, shortly after 7.30pm on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A spokesperson said: \u201cFollowing a search operation a male juvenile, 15, was recovered from the water a short time later.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cHe was pronounced deceased at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cThe deceased was removed to the mortuary at Mullingar Hospital where a postmortem examination will be arranged.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cA file will be prepared for the coroner.\u201d &#8211; PA <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A teenage boy has died after getting into difficulty in water at Lough Ree in Co Westmeath. Garda\u00ed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":545886,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1346,61,60,43,59],"class_list":["post-545885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-garda-siochana","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-westmeath"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545885","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=545885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/545886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}