{"id":92327,"date":"2025-05-11T08:54:36","date_gmt":"2025-05-11T08:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/92327\/"},"modified":"2025-05-11T08:54:36","modified_gmt":"2025-05-11T08:54:36","slug":"ballyreagh-road-body-of-man-discovered-in-portrush-near-north-west-200-starting-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/92327\/","title":{"rendered":"Ballyreagh Road: Body of man discovered in Portrush near North West 200 starting line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Police have launched an investigation after a body was discovered near Rinnagree Point in Portrush on the north coast. Credit: Pacemaker\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/70b01e4b-1b75-41b8-a1c2-315a50e19ee7.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Police have launched an investigation after a body was discovered near Rinnagree Point in Portrush on the north coast. Credit: Pacemaker<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The Ballyreagh Road area of Portrush close to Rinagree Point\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/9e9278aa-b003-446c-839f-02338a3a62f8.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">The Ballyreagh Road area of Portrush close to Rinagree Point<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"thumbnail: Police have launched an investigation after a body was discovered near Rinnagree Point in Portrush on the north coast. Credit: Pacemaker\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1746953676_531_70b01e4b-1b75-41b8-a1c2-315a50e19ee7.jpg\" height=\"40px\" width=\"auto\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"thumbnail: The Ballyreagh Road area of Portrush close to Rinagree Point\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1746953676_175_9e9278aa-b003-446c-839f-02338a3a62f8.jpg\" height=\"40px\" width=\"auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Police have launched an investigation after a body was discovered near Rinnagree Point in Portrush on the north coast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom5 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The body was found in the hours of Friday morning, on the shoreline near the starting line of the North West 200 circuit on the Ballyreagh Road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom5 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The body was found by a member of the public, who reported it to event staff.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom5 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Police and HM Coastguard were called to assist with the recovery.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Police have launched an investigation after a body was discovered near Rinnagree Point in Portrush on the north coast. Credit: Pacemaker\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/70b01e4b-1b75-41b8-a1c2-315a50e19ee7.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Police have launched an investigation after a body was discovered near Rinnagree Point in Portrush on the north coast. Credit: Pacemaker<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">News Catch Up &#8211; Friday 9th May<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom5 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Further details around the death are yet to be confirmed by police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom5 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A PSNI spokesperson said: \u201cPolice in Coleraine are investigating the discovery of a body in the Ballyreagh Road area of Portrush, following a report made shortly after 9.30am this morning, Friday 9th May.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police have launched an investigation after a body was discovered near Rinnagree Point in Portrush on the north&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":92328,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[1211,38053,1144,1610,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-92327","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-antrim-news","9":"tag-north-west-200","10":"tag-northern-ireland","11":"tag-police-service-of-northern-ireland","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114488364536278876","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92327","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=92327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}