Communities around Lough Neagh are probably some of the only people who rejoice at the colder, stormier weather of winter. For two years now, the sunshine and settled forecast of the warmer seasons ...

Toxic blue-green algae blooms covered much of Lough Neagh, the largest lake in the UK and Ireland, and this summer, the thick green veneer has been worse than ever, according to locals living near the ...

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 ...

Grassroots campaigners are due to stage a demonstration on Monday to draw further attention to Lough Neagh’s ongoing pollution crisis. The action comes as a third consecutive summer of extensive ...

Environment Minister Andrew Muir has called for more support from the Executive to tackle the issues at Lough Neagh More support is needed from parties in the executive to tackle the problems with ...

An environmental crisis at the UK’s largest freshwater lake has become a political problem, it has been claimed. Blue-green algae returned to Lough Neagh in the centre of Northern Ireland for the ...

The ongoing pollution crisis at Lough Neagh is "heart-wrenching" to watch, a public meeting has been told. Fisherman Gary McErlain was speaking at the Kinturk Cultural Centre in County Tyrone on ...

The algae growth is fuelled by industrial, agricultural, sewage pollution, and climate change. Blue-green algae blooms have covered much of Lough Neagh for the third consecutive year Pollution from ...

The recovery of Lough Neagh, which has been blighted with pollution and blue-green algae blooms, could take decades, Stormont’s Environment Minister has said. Andrew Muir was speaking following ...

Thirty years ago, a Nenagh local called Paddy Mackey, who spent his younger years on Lough Derg at a time when the word “pollution” was rarely spoken, was cruising along the lake near Dromineer when ...

Lough Neagh offers seemingly endless space and distant horizons in the center of the province of Ulster. Ancient history, busy towns and villages, wildlife parks, and walking trails – to say nothing ...