An identified bathing water on Lough Neagh has failed to meet minimum standards, according to the latest classification. An ...

Sinn Fein president Mary-Lou McDonald said there should be a national focus on the issue, including from the Irish Government ...

Environmentalists have held a wake to mark the “death” of the UK and Ireland’s largest freshwater lake as they accused polluters of causing a huge bloom of toxic blue-green algae. Activists dressed in ...

How do you solve a problem like Lough Neagh? Blue-green algae has been detected in the lough intermittently over the past six decades. But the past three summers have seen the biggest blooms since the ...

Armed with an official 1993 report declaring Lough Derg (the one bordering counties Clare, Galway and Tipperary rather than the one in Donegal) saturated with nutrient pollution, Mackey and a group of ...

Andrew Muir says assembly members should "put their money where their mouth is" and support the plan for an independent ...

Lough Neagh in Northern Ireland is being plagued by toxic algae blooms, prompting concern from locals and environmentalists. Love Our Lough, a group of concerned citizens, staged a wake for Lough ...

The recovery of Lough Neagh will take years, if not decades, Northern Ireland’s Environment Minister has said. The lough has been blighted by noxious blooms of blue-green algae for the third summer in ...

Lough Neagh is the largest freshwater lake in the United Kingdom and Ireland and is located in the six-county statelet of Northern Ireland. This small country of just under 2 million people currently ...