{"id":603538,"date":"2026-08-24T22:32:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T22:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/603538\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T22:32:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T22:32:10","slug":"large-scale-search-underway-for-man-missing-from-a-ferry-in-the-irish-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/603538\/","title":{"rendered":"Large-scale search underway for man missing from a ferry in the Irish Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article-updated-redesign article-updated-redesign-\" title=\"Monday 24 Aug 2026, 9:30 PM\">\n<p>                            LAST UPDATE<br \/>\n                            |<br \/>\n                            2 hrs ago\n                        <\/p>\n<p>A LARGE-SCALE SEARCH is underway for a missing man from a ferry in the Irish Sea.<\/p>\n<p>The man is believed to have gone overboard during an overnight crossing between Dublin and Holyhead.<\/p>\n<p>The Irish Coast Guard was alerted by the UK\u2019s HM Coastguard, which is coordinating the search, at 9.40am.<\/p>\n<p>A broadcast was made and nearby vessels assisted in the early search for the man.<\/p>\n<p>The Irish Coast Guard is assisting the HM Coastguard in the operation. There is a large Irish and British marine rescue presence spanning the ferry route.<\/p>\n<p>North Wales Police and garda\u00ed have been informed, HM Coastguard confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson from the Department of Transport said the Irish Coast Guard has tasked Howth and D\u00fan Laoghaire RNLI all-weather lifeboats, along with Coast Guard Rescue Helicopter 116, with responding to the incident.<\/p>\n<p>The search remains ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAST UPDATE | 2 hrs ago A LARGE-SCALE SEARCH is underway for a missing man from a ferry&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":603539,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[255857,61,60,5006,97220,65944,43,99065,231736],"class_list":["post-603538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-hm-coastguard","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-irish-coast-guard","tag-irish-sea","tag-missing-person","tag-news","tag-rnli","tag-search-and-rescue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603538","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=603538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/603539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}