{"id":597355,"date":"2026-08-18T19:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T19:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/597355\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T19:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T19:54:08","slug":"section-of-cliffs-of-moher-sea-stack-falls-into-atlantic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/597355\/","title":{"rendered":"Section of Cliffs of Moher sea stack falls into Atlantic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A US tourist captured the moment a large section of one of the most recognisable landmarks at the Cliffs of Moher in Co Clare dramatically fell into the sea.<\/p>\n<p>The portion of the 67-metre sea stack, An Bran\u00e1n M\u00f3r, collapsed into the Atlantic last Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Melissa Blackman, who is visiting Ireland from Texas, was on the coastal path when it happened.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Blackman can be heard exclaiming &#8220;wow&#8221; as she filmed it on her camera.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly afterwards, the Doolin Ferry sailed past and captured its own footage showing the newly eroded section of the sea stack.<\/p>\n<p>In a post on Instagram, the company said it had never seen such a collapse over the past 20 years.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The event is a dramatic reminder that the Cliffs of Moher are continually being shaped by the immense power of the Atlantic,&#8221; the company said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A US tourist captured the moment a large section of one of the most recognisable landmarks at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":597356,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-597355","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\/597355","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=597355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/597356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}