{"id":654494,"date":"2026-08-24T21:29:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T21:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/654494\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T21:29:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T21:29:11","slug":"large-scale-search-underway-for-man-missing-from-a-ferry-in-the-irish-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/654494\/","title":{"rendered":"Large-scale search underway for man missing from a ferry in the Irish Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article-updated-redesign article-updated-redesign-\" title=\"Monday 24 Aug 2026, 9:30 PM\">\n<p>                            LAST UPDATE<br \/>\n                            |<br \/>\n                            59 mins ago\n                        <\/p>\n<p>A LARGE-SCALE SEARCH is underway for a missing man from a ferry in the Irish Sea.<\/p>\n<p>The man is believed to have gone overboard during an overnight crossing between Dublin and Holyhead.<\/p>\n<p>The Irish Coast Guard was alerted by the UK\u2019s HM Coastguard, which is coordinating the search, at 9.40am.<\/p>\n<p>A broadcast was made and nearby vessels assisted in the early search for the man.<\/p>\n<p>The Irish Coast Guard is assisting the HM Coastguard in the operation. There is a large Irish and British marine rescue presence spanning the ferry route.<\/p>\n<p>North Wales Police and garda\u00ed have been informed, HM Coastguard confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson from the Department of Transport said the Irish Coast Guard has tasked Howth and D\u00fan Laoghaire RNLI all-weather lifeboats, along with Coast Guard Rescue Helicopter 116, with responding to the incident.<\/p>\n<p>The search remains ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAST UPDATE | 59 mins ago A LARGE-SCALE SEARCH is underway for a missing man from a ferry&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":654495,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[40],"tags":[9,10,18,13,14,6,276656,19,17,35444,118478,11,12,15,16,48762,5,22677,12362,7,8],"class_list":["post-654494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-eire","tag-featured-news","tag-featurednews","tag-headlines","tag-hm-coastguard","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-irish-coast-guard","tag-irish-sea","tag-latest-news","tag-latestnews","tag-main-news","tag-mainnews","tag-missing-person","tag-news","tag-rnli","tag-search-and-rescue","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117152616651888350","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654494","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=654494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/654495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}