{"id":545887,"date":"2026-07-12T12:56:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T12:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/545887\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T12:56:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T12:56:14","slug":"boy-15-dies-after-getting-into-difficulty-in-lough-ree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/545887\/","title":{"rendered":"Boy, 15, dies after getting into difficulty in Lough Ree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 15-year-old boy has died after getting into difficulty in Lough Ree in Co Westmeath.<\/p>\n<p>The alarm was raised at around 7.30pm yesterday evening, when a number of teenagers were reported to be in difficulty in the water around Carnakilla Point, which is close to Glasson village outside Athlone.<\/p>\n<p>The Sligo Coastguard Rescue 118 assisted in the search along with the Lough Ree RNLI lifeboat at nearby Coosan Point on the River Shannon.<\/p>\n<p>Following the search operation, a 15 year old boy was recovered from the water and was pronounced dead a short time later.<\/p>\n<p>His body has been removed to Regional Hospital Mullingar where a post-mortem examination will be carried out.<\/p>\n<p>Local people and holidaymakers camping around the lake have expressed deep shock and sadness at the news of the boy&#8217;s death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 15-year-old boy has died after getting into difficulty in Lough Ree in Co Westmeath. The alarm was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":545888,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-545887","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\/545887","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=545887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/545888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}