{"id":591387,"date":"2026-08-12T22:36:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T22:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/591387\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T22:36:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T22:36:10","slug":"man-bitten-by-shark-off-waterford-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/591387\/","title":{"rendered":"Man bitten by shark off Waterford coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man is receiving medical treatment following a shark bite near Ardmore, Co Waterford.<\/p>\n<p>At approximately 4.15pm on Tuesday, the Irish Coast Guard\u2019s Marine Rescue Coordination Centre in Dublin responded to a call-out.<\/p>\n<p>A man on board a small fishing vessel south of Ardmore reportedly suffered a leg injury following a bite from a shark.<\/p>\n<p>Rescue 117 helicopter was tasked to the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Ballycotton RNLI and Youghal RNLI also responded to the incident<\/p>\n<p>Rescue 117 transferred the man to Cork University Hospital (CUH) and handed over care to the HSE.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man is receiving medical treatment following a shark bite near Ardmore, Co Waterford. At approximately 4.15pm on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":591388,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[61,60,82,263],"class_list":["post-591387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591387","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=591387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/591388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}