{"id":58768,"date":"2025-09-12T04:33:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T04:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/58768\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T04:33:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T04:33:16","slug":"foragers-urged-to-be-careful-picking-wild-mushrooms-and-australian-murder-case-shows-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/58768\/","title":{"rendered":"Foragers urged to be careful picking wild mushrooms \u2013 and Australian murder case shows why"},"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\">\u200bThere is a growing trend of foraging in Ireland \u2013 but the murder of a family using poisonous fungi has highlighted just how costly a mistake can be\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Mycologist Bill O\u2019Dea runs foraging hunts each year and says he has seen a surge in interest in the topic\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Billy O1dea.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)\">Mycologist Bill O\u2019Dea runs foraging hunts each year and says he has seen a surge in interest in the topic<\/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)\">There has been a remarkable surge in interest in wild foraged foods across Ireland, though a leading fungi expert urged people to be careful if collecting wild mushrooms.<\/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)\">Bill O\u2019Dea \u2013 a leading Irish mycologist who runs guided fungi hunts \u2013 issued the warning as a high-profile Australian murder case highlighted just how dangerous some mushrooms can be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u200bThere is a growing trend of foraging in Ireland \u2013 but the murder of a family using poisonous&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58769,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[9,10,13,14,6,56,11,12,15,16,5,28148,7,8,15913,65,66,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-58768","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-immigration","14":"tag-latest-news","15":"tag-latestnews","16":"tag-main-news","17":"tag-mainnews","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-ralph-riegel","20":"tag-top-stories","21":"tag-topstories","22":"tag-ucd","23":"tag-world","24":"tag-world-news","25":"tag-worldnews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58768","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=58768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}