Workers recover 15,000 crabs after lorry crashes into field

BBC:

About 15,000 escaped crabs have been recovered after the truck they were travelling in tipped into a field in Inishowen, County Donegal.

The crustaceans, which were worth about €60,000 (£52,000) and bound for shops and restaurants in Portugal, spilled from aluminium containers after the crash near Carrickmaquigley in Redcastle at about 07:30 local time on Monday.

The road between Quigley’s Point and Moville was closed for 18 hours while a large recovery operation, featuring night lights and a hydraulic crane, was under way.

The driver of the lorry was not injured in the crash.

Crabs, as well as some lobsters and oysters, had been caught by fishermen in Lough Foyle and were en route from Greencastle to Rosslare Port in County Wexford when the crash happened.