{"id":58514,"date":"2025-09-12T01:31:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T01:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/58514\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T01:31:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T01:31:09","slug":"cork-comedian-tadhg-hickey-feared-for-his-life-during-suspected-drone-attack-on-gaza-aid-flotilla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/58514\/","title":{"rendered":"Cork comedian Tadhg Hickey feared for his life during suspected drone attack on Gaza aid flotilla"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">The writer and activist shared dramatic footage from aboard the Alma, describing his fear of being killed and calling for Irish government condemnation.\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Tadhg Hickey, pictured last year. Photo: Marcin Lewandowski\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/93353833-1476-4642-8522-137d9e81da4e.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Tadhg Hickey, pictured last year. Photo: Marcin Lewandowski<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">It has emerged that a well-known Cork native was on a boat struck by a suspected drone attack, as part of a major flotilla attempting to break Israel\u2019s aid blockade of Gaza.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Comedian and writer Tadhg Hickey posted footage on Instagram appearing to show a projectile being fired onto the vessel before striking the deck and causing a fire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The writer and activist shared dramatic footage from aboard the Alma, describing his fear of being killed and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58515,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[9,10,13,14,6,34269,11,12,15,16,5,7,8,65,66,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-58514","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-kevin-galvin","14":"tag-latest-news","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":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58514","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=58514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}