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03/09/2026

03/09/2026

HOW FARMERS ARE REWILDING

Link:
https://www.thejournal.ie/readme/rewilding-life-7148661-Sep2026/

31/08/2026

⚫Inland Fisheries Ireland (IFI) and statutory partners are now following a line of inquiry regarding a significant fish kill that took place in Co. this week.

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31/08/2026

30/08/2026

How is this allowed to happen ?!!!! It’s disgusting and disgraceful !

29/08/2026

IFI is investigating a significant fish kill in the Crana River Co. Donegal, approximately 5kms above Buncrana.

Initial estimate of 200 fish dead. Samples taken at affected area. IFI will work with State partners in line with the new national protocol

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27/08/2026

A black UK registration Mercedes car has been reported as having carried out a burglary in Claregalway.

This car has been sighted in Corrandulla and house in Balrobuck & Clonboo has been robbed.

Black Mercedes UK reg beginning with KV.

27/08/2026

Oughterard’s Owenriff River can attest to this.

Ireland's longest-living animal isn't a bird or a mammal. It's a mussel that can live for well over a century, quietly filtering river water the entire time.

The freshwater pearl mussel can survive up to 130 or even 140 years, making it, by a wide margin, the longest-lived animal species in Ireland. A single adult filters roughly fifty litres of water a day, meaning a healthy population can genuinely clean an entire river system simply by existing in it, which is exactly why scientists treat these mussels as a living indicator of pristine water quality.

Their life cycle is almost unbelievable. A single female releases between one and four million microscopic larvae, called glochidia, into the water. Each one has just twenty four hours to find and attach itself to the gills of a passing Atlantic salmon or brown trout, or it dies. Those that succeed spend nine to eleven months living on the fish's gills before dropping off to bury themselves in the riverbed, where they'll spend roughly the next five years hidden in the gravel before finally beginning to filter-feed. They don't even reach sexual maturity until around age fifteen.

That dependence on healthy rivers and healthy salmon populations has made the species critically endangered in Ireland today, with populations down more than ninety percent across Europe over the last century. One of the longest-running mussel reintroduction programs anywhere in the world now operates on Northern Ireland's Ballinderry River, originally set up using EU Peace and Reconciliation funding in the years after the Troubles.

A creature that can outlive several human generations is quietly disappearing from Irish rivers within a single one.

Did you know Ireland's longest-living animal is a mussel, not a whale or a bird?