{"id":599212,"date":"2026-08-20T13:52:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T13:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/599212\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T13:52:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T13:52:12","slug":"hopes-for-meeting-with-waterways-ireland-over-ballinamore-drowning-tragedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/599212\/","title":{"rendered":"Hopes for meeting with Waterways Ireland over Ballinamore drowning tragedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A local councillor is hoping a meeting can be held with Waterways Ireland over a recent drowning tragedy in Ballinamore.<br \/>19-year-old Alan Creamer drowned in Kiltymoodan last Saturday night, while attending the Ballinamore Family Festival.<\/p>\n<p>Local councillor Gary Prior has raised safety concerns following the incident, saying a number of drownings have taken place there over the years.<br \/>He is now calling for measures to be reviewed with the waterway authority:<\/p>\n<p>Shannonside FM has contacted Waterways Ireland for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A local councillor is hoping a meeting can be held with Waterways Ireland over a recent drowning tragedy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":599213,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43,106279],"class_list":["post-599212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-waterways-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599212","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=599212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/599213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}