{"id":580419,"date":"2026-08-02T14:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T14:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/580419\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T14:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T14:58:08","slug":"hundreds-of-dead-fish-found-in-dublins-tolka-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/580419\/","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds of dead fish found in Dublin&#8217;s Tolka River"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An investigation is under way after hundreds of fish were found dead in the Tolka River near Damastown in Dublin.<\/p>\n<p>Among the species of fish found were brown trout, eel, stickleback, lamprey and minnow, according to Inland Fisheries Ireland. They were found over a 2km stretch of the river.<\/p>\n<p>The organisation said early indications suggest that more than 500 dead fish were found.<\/p>\n<p>The IFI said that the alarm was first raised yesterday and samples have been taken from the river for analysis.<\/p>\n<p>It said that an interagency group with representatives from Fingal County Council, the Environmental Protection Agency and the National Parks and Wildlife Service, was convened.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, a definite line of enquiry was established and the group&#8217;s role has been completed, according to the IFI.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the public are being urged to report any instances of fish kills, water pollution, habitat destruction or illegal fishing to its confidential number 0818 34 74 24.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An investigation is under way after hundreds of fish were found dead in the Tolka River near Damastown&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":580420,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-580419","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\/580419","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=580419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/580420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}