Crabs caught by Donegal fishermen had been bound for Portugal when the truck transporting them landed in a ditch. File photograph: David Paul Morris/BloombergA team of workers managed to recapture a consignment of about 15,000 live crabs that escaped from a truck after it ended up in ditch on Monday morning last. The crabs were bound for shops and restaurants in Portugal when the incident occurred at Carrickmaquigley, Redcastle, early on Monday morning. Odhran McLaughlin, of McLaughlin’s Light and Heavy Recovery Services of Burnfoot, estimated about 95 per cent of the crabs had been saved. When we arrived a lot of the crabs had spilled out of their containers and were making a bid for freedom into the fields,” he said.

Source: The Irish Times January 13, 2026 15:02 UTC