{"id":644761,"date":"2026-10-29T11:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T11:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/644761\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T11:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T11:00:09","slug":"turtle-that-washed-up-on-a-kerry-beach-22-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/644761\/","title":{"rendered":"Turtle that washed up on a Kerry beach 22-years-ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A turtle who washed up on a beach in Co Kerry 22-years-ago has finally been released back into the Atlantic Ocean.<\/p>\n<p>Now 34-years-old, Molly, the 18-stone loggerhead turtle had been living at the <a href=\"https:\/\/dingle-oceanworld.ie\/book-tickets\/?gad_source=1&amp;gad_campaignid=21310800178&amp;gclid=Cj0KCQjw3YvXBhCDARIsAKB-ox-CGBJaxpOeDqvHVXxz1sgSE7dbnECrEgYnSo0oLoa4GpAgE3DKZOQaAh7xEALw_wcB\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oceanworld<\/a> aquarium in Dingle before being released back into the ocean off the coast of Portugal yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>The sea turtle had a long road to recovery after she washed up on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiokerry.ie\/news\/maharees\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Maharees<\/a>, following a storm in 2004, when she was a three-stone 12-year-old adolescent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A turtle who washed up on a beach in Co Kerry 22-years-ago has finally been released back into&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":644762,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[111,139,69,147,406],"class_list":["post-644761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=644761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/644762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}