{"id":262468,"date":"2026-01-01T23:48:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T23:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/262468\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T23:48:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T23:48:21","slug":"irish-man-35-drowns-off-australian-beach-on-new-years-eve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/262468\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish man (35) drowns off Australian beach on New Year\u2019s Eve"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Whitehaven<\/p>\n

Whitehaven Beach, Whitsunday Islands, Australia. Photo: Getty.<\/p>\n

A 35-year-old Irish man has drowned off a beach near the Great Barrier Reef in Australia.<\/p>\n

The man died at the popular Whitehaven Beach on Whitsunday Island at around 11am on Wednesday, ahead of New Year\u2019s celebrations getting under way.<\/p>\n

Emergency services were called to the scene after the man was found unresponsive in the water, local news outlets reported.<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for the Department of Foreign Affairs said it is aware of the incident and \u201cstands ready to provide consular assistance\u201d.<\/p>\n

The man is among a number of people who have died in separate incidents off the Australian coast in recent days.<\/p>\n

\"Whitehaven<\/p>\n

Whitehaven Beach, Whitsunday Islands, Australia. Photo: Getty.<\/p>\n

News in 90 Seconds – January 1st 2026 <\/p>\n

A young woman died after being swept into the ocean from Maroubra Beach in Sydney in the early hours of yesterday.<\/p>\n

Local police were told a 25-year-old woman was hit by a wave that knocked her into a tidal rock pool before further waves swept her out to sea. Her body was found at around 5am yesterday.<\/p>\n

Separately, a 45-year-old woman died at Dunbogan Beach in New South Wales later yesterday after getting into difficulties in the water.<\/p>\n

The woman died after being pulled from the water. She was treated by paramedics at the scene but could not be revived.<\/p>\n

A number of other people were reported missing in separate incidents off the Australian coast, including a teenage boy who was on a dinghy that overturned near Sydney\u2019s northern beaches on New Year\u2019s Eve.<\/p>\n

A man believed to have been on board the boat died at the scene near Palm Beach, while another man was hospitalised.<\/p>\n

Just after 6am yesterday, a separate search began for a swimmer aged in his 20s who was believed to be missing in the water off the coast of Coogee Beach in Sydney.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Whitehaven Beach, Whitsunday Islands, Australia. Photo: Getty. A 35-year-old Irish man has drowned off a beach near the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":262469,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[9,10,13,14,6,11,23,12,15,16,5,7,8,65,66,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-262468","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-featured-news","11":"tag-featurednews","12":"tag-headlines","13":"tag-latest-news","14":"tag-latest-news-ticker","15":"tag-latestnews","16":"tag-main-news","17":"tag-mainnews","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-top-stories","20":"tag-topstories","21":"tag-world","22":"tag-world-news","23":"tag-worldnews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115822520138973594","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}