{"id":589018,"date":"2026-08-10T15:32:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T15:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/589018\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T15:32:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T15:32:11","slug":"claims-climate-change-bringing-mauve-stinger-jellfyfish-to-north-clare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/589018\/","title":{"rendered":"Claims Climate Change Bringing Mauve Stinger Jellfyfish To North Clare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s claimed climate change is responsible for the increased recent presence of the Mauve Stinger Jellyfish in North Clare.<\/p>\n<p>The species which is generally found in the Mediteranean, but sometimes travels North was spotted at Bishops Quarter in Ballyvaughan and Fanore Beach on a number of occasions last week.<\/p>\n<p>The stings are generally not dangerous, but can cause intense burning pain, redness, itchy and blistering skin.<\/p>\n<p>Lahinch-based documentary filmmaker, author and ocean conservationist Ken O\u2019Sullivan says vinegar and hot water is the best antidote.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the full interview here<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s claimed climate change is responsible for the increased recent presence of the Mauve Stinger Jellyfish in North&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":589019,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[246,61,60,82],"class_list":["post-589018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589018","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=589018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/589019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}