{"id":549395,"date":"2025-11-04T22:38:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T22:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/549395\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T22:38:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T22:38:12","slug":"viral-lion-apprehended-by-gardai-in-clare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/549395\/","title":{"rendered":"Viral &#8220;lion&#8221; apprehended by Garda\u00ed in Clare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The viral alleged \u201clion\u201d filmed running in a forested area in Ireland has been apprehended by Garda\u00ed in Co. Clare.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Last week, a video began circulating on social media purporting to show a creature that looked like a lion running through an Irish forest. It was filmed from a truck.<\/p>\n<p>At the time, Garda\u00ed said they were investigating the reports.<\/p>\n<p>Following an investigation, Garda\u00ed in East Co. Clare discovered the source of the sighting of a \u201clion-like animal\u201d, which was in fact a dog.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you go down to the woods today\u2026its not a lion you will find, but the very friendly Newfoundland dog named Mouse,\u201d the local Garda\u00ed said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGarda\u00ed from Killaloe have concluded that the recent video of a lion like animal roaming around the woods in East Clare is in fact the very friendly Mouse, a Newfoundland dog who is delighted with his recent viral video clip.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reports indicate that the sighting took place in the vicinity of Mountshannon in County Clare, although several social media posts have tied the incident to Kells in County Meath.<\/p>\n<p>Social media users mostly reacted with levity to the revelation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThankfully he is safe and no hunting fool went on a scouting expedition for the first \u2018wild lion\u2019 in Ireland!\u201d said one person.<\/p>\n<p>Others said he was \u201cgorgeous\u201d, a \u201cbeauty of a dog\u201d, and praised the Garda\u00ed for getting him safe and sound.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The viral alleged \u201clion\u201d filmed running in a forested area in Ireland has been apprehended by Garda\u00ed in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":549396,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3847],"tags":[157050,69499,176229,25194,176230,70,16,15,1717],"class_list":{"0":"post-549395","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-ben-scallan","9":"tag-clare","10":"tag-kells","11":"tag-lion","12":"tag-meath","13":"tag-science","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-wildlife"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115493830897241617","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/549396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}