BBC News NI is focusing on the issues at Lough Neagh and how to fix them The lough has been blighted by toxic blue-green algae since June It is the largest freshwater lake in the UK and Ireland It ...

Lough Neagh is a “very significant crisis” for the whole island of Ireland, Sinn Féin president Mary-Lou McDonald has said. The lough, which is the UK and Ireland’s largest freshwater lake by surface ...

An 80-mile nature trail showing the natural heritage of Lough Derg was launched last year to take visitors from Portumna, County Galway, to Killaloe, County Clare and back to Terryglass, County ...

Much of the foul-smelling, so-called algal mats banked up around the shore of Lough Neagh consist of bacteria primarily associated with faeces from livestock or human-effluent, new research has found.

This weekend, the Jubilee of Hope pilgrimage season will open in Ireland and the first cohort of 2025 pilgrims will disembark on a small island called St. Patrick’s Purgatory located on Lough Derg, a ...

There needs to be independent examination of the risks to public water taken from Lough Neagh as the blue-green algae crisis continues to grip Ireland’s largest lake, it has been suggested. Large ...