{"id":929451,"date":"2026-04-30T22:58:40","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T22:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/929451\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T22:58:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T22:58:40","slug":"lough-neagh-search-and-rescue-ongoing-after-report-of-person-ending-up-in-water-the-irish-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/929451\/","title":{"rendered":"Lough Neagh search and rescue ongoing after report of person ending up in water \u2013 The Irish News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A search and rescue operation is continuing at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishnews.com\/tags\/lough-neagh\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishnews.com\/tags\/lough-neagh\/\">Lough Neagh<\/a> following reports of a person coming off a jet ski.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The jet skier is believed to have set off from the Gawley\u2019s Gate area, on the shore of Lough Neagh close to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishnews.com\/tags\/aghalee\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishnews.com\/tags\/aghalee\/\">Aghalee<\/a>, and it was reported at around 1.20pm that a person had entered the water.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A PSNI spokesperson said: \u201cPolice received a report of a person believed to be in the water in the Derryola Bridge Road area of Craigavon at approximately 1.20pm today, Thursday 30th April.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cOfficers are currently in attendance alongside colleagues from HM Coastguard and the public are advised to avoid the area at this time.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishnews.com\/news\/northern-ireland\/dup-and-sinn-fein-wade-in-after-flags-row-erupts-over-flying-tricolour-at-international-sheep-dog-society-events-UF75ZRAB2JDAJBQ5OXGMJLZR2U\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"DUP and Sinn Fein wade in after flags row erupts over flying tricolour at International Sheep Dog Society events\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1777589919_529_4HCCQUEW6FDPHJW3RI2ACIPQFM.jpg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"450\"\/><\/a><a class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishnews.com\/news\/northern-ireland\/irish-league-club-apologises-after-mla-banned-from-ground-RVZDKDP6RJHDFBJGBTFMSCENTM\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Irish league club apologises after MLA &#x2018;banned&#x2019; from ground\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1777589920_28_LGAXCVQAIVBFZESGMKHVKRNCGU.webp\"  width=\"800\" height=\"450\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cAnyone with any information is asked to contact police on 101 quoting reference 802.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Irish Coast Guard is also involved in the operation, having tasked its Rescue 118 helicopter from Sligo, and has been approached for comment alongside HM Coastguard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Lough Neagh Search and Rescue organisation said it tasked teams to join the operation at 1.28pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A search and rescue operation is continuing at Lough Neagh following reports of a person coming off a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":929452,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5011],"tags":[80374,44175,99538,1144,1618,16,15],"class_list":["post-929451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-northern-ireland","tag-co-armagh","tag-coastguard","tag-lough-neagh","tag-northern-ireland","tag-psni","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116496138932474655","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929451","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=929451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/929452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=929451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=929451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=929451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}