{"id":615779,"date":"2026-09-06T00:20:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T00:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/615779\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T00:20:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T00:20:12","slug":"man-60s-dies-after-being-taken-from-water-off-donegal-coast-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/615779\/","title":{"rendered":"Man (60s) dies after being taken from water off Donegal coast \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A man has died after being taken from the water off Co <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/donegal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/donegal\">Donegal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The man, who was in his 60s, was spotted by passersby in the water at Ned\u2019s Point near Buncrana.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">He was taken from the water at around 2.30pm by members of the public.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The emergency services were called and numerous services including the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/an-garda-siochana\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/an-garda-siochana\/\">Garda\u00ed<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/national-ambulance-service\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/national-ambulance-service\/\">National Ambulance Service<\/a>, the fire service and the Lough Swilly RNLI responded.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Attempts were made to resuscitate the man.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">However, he was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The dead man was taken to Letterkenny University Hospital where a full postmortem examination is to take place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has died after being taken from the water off Co Donegal. The man, who was in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":615780,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[45,1485,61,60,65960,43],"class_list":["post-615779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-an-garda-siochana","tag-donegal","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-national-ambulance-service","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615779","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=615779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/615780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}