Irish town ‘shell-shocked’ after 15,000 crabs escape from overturned truck

Jan 17, 2026 - 15:00
Irish town ‘shell-shocked’ after 15,000 crabs escape from overturned truck
Close-up of brown crabs

Odhran McLaughlin learned the hard way that it takes a village to wrangle 15,000 scuttling crabs off the side of a highway on the coast of Ireland in the dead of night.