{"id":582306,"date":"2026-08-03T22:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T22:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/582306\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T22:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T22:02:08","slug":"large-gorse-fire-re-ignited-in-the-dublin-mountains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/582306\/","title":{"rendered":"Large gorse fire re-ignited in the Dublin Mountains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A large gorse fire has re-ignited around Glencullen in the Dublin Mountains on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters from Rathfarnham and D\u00fan Laoghaire are attending the wildfire, and smoke is travelling over Three Rock into South Dublin.<\/p>\n<p>Dublin Fire Brigade is advising residents affected by smoke to \u201cclose all windows and doors as a precaution\u201d. It is not known how this fire started again.<\/p>\n<p>More than 25 firefighters along with the Irish Air Corps and Executive Helicopters, had fought a blaze in the area last Friday, which was eventually brought under control.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement tonight (Monday) Dublin Fire Brigade said that smoke is travelling from the south over Three Rock Mountain into the suburbs of the city.<\/p>\n<p>Last week\u2019s fire came dangerously close to several homes and local businesses. It is the third time in two weeks that a wildfire has erupted in Glencullen.<\/p>\n<p>There have been large wildfires in Tipperary, Kilkenny, Carlow Kerry and Wicklow over the past several weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A large gorse fire has re-ignited around Glencullen in the Dublin Mountains on Monday. Firefighters from Rathfarnham and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":582307,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-582306","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\/582306","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=582306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/582307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}