{"id":32903,"date":"2025-08-30T12:42:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T12:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/32903\/"},"modified":"2025-08-30T12:42:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T12:42:08","slug":"brother-of-tragic-donegal-kayaker-to-run-marathon-to-raise-funds-for-rnli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/32903\/","title":{"rendered":"Brother of tragic Donegal kayaker to run marathon to raise funds for RNLI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The brother of a man who went missing following a tragic kayaking accident off West Donegal is to run the Dublin Marathon in his honour.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Accountant Paul Buchanan was reported missing on the evening of October 3rd, 2024.<\/p>\n<p>However, despite the recovery of his orange kayak during a large-scale search, Mr Buchanan, who was in his 50s, has never been found.<\/p>\n<p>Paul, who lived with his family in Ramelton but was originally from Newtowncunningham, had been kayaking off Magheragallon Pier in Gaoth Dobhair.<\/p>\n<p>Now Paul\u2019s brother Shaun is to run the famous 26.2 mile Dublin marathon to raise funds for the RNLI in honour of Paul.<\/p>\n<p>Shaun plans to run through the pain barrier to help raise funds for the RNLI, just one of the agencies which searched tirelessly for Paul when he went missing.<\/p>\n<p>To date, The Paul Buchanan Forever by the Sea Tribute Fund has raised more than \u20ac1,500.<\/p>\n<p>If you would like to support Shaun and help raise as much funds for the RNLI in Paul\u2019s honour then simply log on to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/paul-buchanan.muchloved.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">https:\/\/paul-buchanan.muchloved.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Brother of tragic Donegal kayaker to run marathon to raise funds for RNLI was last modified:  August 29th, 2025 by Staff Writer<\/p>\n<p>      Tags:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The brother of a man who went missing following a tragic kayaking accident off West Donegal is to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32904,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[6368,18,25817,19,17,25818,23377,25819,22677,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-32903","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-donegal","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-funds","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-kayaker","14":"tag-marathon","15":"tag-paul-buchanan","16":"tag-rnli","17":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32903","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=32903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}