{"id":62223,"date":"2025-10-05T12:54:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T12:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/62223\/"},"modified":"2025-10-05T12:54:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T12:54:07","slug":"killybegs-woman-aoife-tunas-in-to-land-the-catch-of-a-lifetime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/62223\/","title":{"rendered":"Killybegs woman Aoife ‘tunas’ in to land the catch of a lifetime"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Co Donegal woman returned home to Ireland from Australia for a visit and landed one of the biggest fish ever caught of the west coast.<\/p>\n

Aoife McGettigan grew up in the port of Killybegs and often went fishing with her family.<\/p>\n

But not in her wildest dreams did she ever imagine she would one day land a Blue Fin Tuna weighing a whopping 760Ibs.<\/p>\n

Aoife was out fishing with Killybegs Fishing Trips on board the Fiona Tee in recent days when she landed the monster catch.<\/p>\n

It is the biggest fish that has ever been caught by anyone on the boat.<\/p>\n

Aoife battled with the fish for over an hour before she was able to bring it alongside the boat to have it measured.<\/p>\n

Skipper of the Fiona Tee, Declan McGettigan, who just happens to be Aoife\u2019s brother, said he was delighted that his sister landed such a huge fish.<\/p>\n

He said \u201cShe was really in her element and didn\u2019t panic at all. It was a huge fish and I was delighted for her.<\/p>\n

\u201cNobody would believe her back in Australia but at least she has the proof to show how big the fish was.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Aoife with her monster tuna.<\/p>\n

Under Inland Fisheries Ireland\u2019s Tuna CHART research programme, the fish cannot be killed but can be tagged and and then released.<\/p>\n

Authorised charter skippers catch, measure, and tag the fish while it\u2019s in the water, with the data collected providing information on the tuna\u2019s movement and size.<\/p>\n

Aoife is planning to head back soon to Australia but will have a brilliant fishing story to tell her husband Phil Barrow.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s Phil\u2019s dream to try Blue Fin Tuna fishing back off the coast of Ireland.<\/p>\n

But the chances are he will never land a whopper as big as Aoife\u2019s catch.<\/p>\n

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Killybegs woman Aoife \u2018tunas\u2019 in to land the catch of a lifetime was last modified: October 5th, 2025 by Staff Writer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Co Donegal woman returned home to Ireland from Australia for a visit and landed one of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62224,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-62223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62223","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=62223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}