{"id":578152,"date":"2026-08-01T02:09:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T02:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/578152\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T02:09:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T02:09:16","slug":"diver-brought-to-hospital-after-rescue-at-blasket-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/578152\/","title":{"rendered":"Diver brought to hospital after rescue at Blasket island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A diver has been brought to hospital after being recovered by a lifeboat at the Blasket islands.<\/p>\n<p>Valentia coast guard said it received a 999 call at around 12:30pm today about a missing diver in a cave on Inis Tuaisceart, also known as Fear Marbh or Dead Man island due to its appearance.<\/p>\n<p>It is the northern-most of the Blasket Islands.<\/p>\n<p>The Rescue 115 helicopter and Fenit RNLI were tasked to the rescue.<\/p>\n<p>The diver was recovered by the lifeboat and transferred to University Hospital Kerry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A diver has been brought to hospital after being recovered by a lifeboat at the Blasket islands. Valentia&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":578153,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-578152","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\/578152","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=578152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/578153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}