{"id":303158,"date":"2026-01-25T16:57:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T16:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/303158\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T16:57:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T16:57:07","slug":"man-80s-dies-in-stormy-water-off-dublin-coast-while-woman-60s-dies-in-co-down-lake-the-irish-times-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/303158\/","title":{"rendered":"Man (80s) dies in stormy water off Dublin coast, while woman (60s) dies in Co Down lake \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A man in his 80s has died after getting into difficulties in stormy sea waters off the south <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/dublin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/dublin\">Dublin<\/a> coast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/garda-siochana\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/garda-siochana\/\">Garda\u00ed<\/a> say emergency services were called to the Great South Wall in Poolbeg at about 2.15pm on Saturday after the man entered the water.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">He was found close to the Great South Wall and retrieved but was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Writing about the incident on X, the D\u00fan Laoghaire Coast Guard account posted footage of a helicopter above stormy sea conditions at the Great South Wall and warned: \u201cDuring stormy sea conditions, heed safety warnings, keep clear of the coastline and don\u2019t ever take risks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">In a separate incident on Saturday a woman in her 60s has died following an incident in Helen\u2019s Bay in Co Down.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Three people were taken to hospital after getting into difficulty at Helen\u2019s Bay Beach, Belfast Coastguard said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">In a statement on Sunday, Independent MP for North Down Alex Easton said: \u201cI am deeply saddened to learn of the tragic death of a woman in her 60s following an incident at Helen\u2019s Bay on Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cMy thoughts and prayers are with her family and loved ones at this incredibly difficult time.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The Coastguard said several onlookers attempted to rescue the trio, with one person entering the water.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A Coastguard helicopter, RNLI lifeboat and ambulances all took part in the operation at Belfast Lough. \u2014PA<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udcdf Callout &#8211; Great South Bull Wall &amp; Killiney Beach &#8211; 24.01.2026 \ud83d\udcdf<\/p>\n<p>Incident 1 &#8211; Person located in water beside Great South Bull wall during stormy sea conditions. The casualty was recovered but sadly had passed away.<\/p>\n<p>1\/3 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/i3uiu825bi\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/i3uiu825bi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dun Laoghaire Coast Guard (@DLCoastGuard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DLCoastGuard\/status\/2015337419734712381?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">January 25, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-it-article-body__interstitial-link\">[\u00a0<a aria-label=\"Open related story\" class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/ireland\/2026\/01\/25\/met-eireann-issues-yellow-weather-warning-for-nine-counties-amid-wintry-showers-and-possible-snow\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Met \u00c9ireann issues yellow weather warning for nine counties amid wintry showers and possible snowOpens in new window<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man in his 80s has died after getting into difficulties in stormy sea waters off the south&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303077,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[9,10,52,18,13,14,8030,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-303158","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-dublin","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-featured-news","13":"tag-featurednews","14":"tag-garda-siochana","15":"tag-headlines","16":"tag-ie","17":"tag-ireland","18":"tag-latest-news","19":"tag-latestnews","20":"tag-main-news","21":"tag-mainnews","22":"tag-news","23":"tag-top-stories","24":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115956799837204390","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303158","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=303158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}