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 ...

Some toxins have been found in the flesh of some fish in Lough Neagh for the first time, the Food Standards Agency (FSA) has confirmed. However, it said commercially harvested fish from the lough ...

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 ...

Lough Neagh Partnership is to spend up to £250,000 looking at the future management of Ireland’s largest fresh water body, including potential public ownership. The organisation, the board of which ...

The owner of Lough Neagh's bed has insisted he wants to work with Stormont to secure the long-term future of the lake. The comments from Earl of Shaftesbury Nicholas Ashley-Cooper came after he met ...

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 ...

Lough Neagh’s only commercial fishery was not consulted about a major action plan to tackle the environmental crisis currently gripping the lake, a Stormont committee has heard. Fresh details emerged ...

Campaigners who have warned that Ireland's largest fresh water lake, Lough Neagh, is in danger due to pollution met members of the Northern Ireland Executive this morning to discuss the crisis. The ...

Looking out over the expanse of Lough Neagh, it is hard to believe this is a lake and not a sea. On a clear day, land on the far side is just about visible as a rim of distant blue hills. The largest ...

The Earl of Shaftesbury has said he has held constructive discussions with Stormont's environment minister over issues affecting Lough Neagh. It comes after the Lough Neagh Partnership warned harmful ...

You would be hard pressed to find someone in Northern Ireland who isn’t aware of the ecological crisis at Lough Neagh. Last year, blue-green algae bloomed in the lake at unprecedented levels, with ...