{"id":557835,"date":"2026-07-19T18:22:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T18:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/557835\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T18:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T18:22:10","slug":"controlled-explosion-conducted-at-popular-mayo-lake-amenity-after-grenade-discovered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/557835\/","title":{"rendered":"Controlled explosion conducted at popular Mayo lake amenity after grenade discovered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1784485330_975_imengine.public.prod.cmg.infomaker.io.jpeg\" alt=\"\" itemprop=\"image\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Lough Lannagh, Castlebar.<\/p>\n<p>\n    Published:<br \/>\n    Sun 19 Jul 2026, 2:08 PM\n  <\/p>\n<p>\n        Last updated:<br \/>\n        Sun 19 Jul 2026, 2:18 PM\n      <\/p>\n<p class=\"ew-body\">A controlled explosion has been conducted by Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) personnel at Lough Lannagh in Castlebar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ew-body\">A grenade, historic in nature, was discovered on the lake shore yesterday (Saturday) evening and reported to local garda\u00ed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ew-body\">The area, including the busy car park, was closed off to the public for an extended period due to the emergency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ew-body\">No further information is available at this time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ew-body\">Local Councillor Donna Sheridan has welcomed the fact that the incident was handled in such a swift and professional manner.<\/p>\n<p>\n    Published:<br \/>\n    Sun 19 Jul 2026, 2:08 PM\n  <\/p>\n<p>\n        Last updated:<br \/>\n        Sun 19 Jul 2026, 2:18 PM\n      <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lough Lannagh, Castlebar. Published: Sun 19 Jul 2026, 2:08 PM Last updated: Sun 19 Jul 2026, 2:18 PM&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":557836,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-557835","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\/557835","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=557835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/557836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}