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Blue-green algae returns to Lough Neagh ‘with a vengeance’

At the start of June, Mr Muir announced a range of actions to tackle the problems of Lough Neagh.

The measures are part of the Lough Neagh Report and Action Plan that fall under his department.

They included a research initiative as well as a tree-planting project and programmes aimed at supporting farmers and slurry spreaders.

The report has been with the Northern Ireland Executive since mid-June, but ministers have not yet agreed to it.

Some further elements of the plan are cross-cutting and require executive approval to be implemented.

In a statement released on Tuesday, the Lough Neagh Partnership expressed “profound disappointment over the Northern Ireland Executive’s failure to approve a critical action plan to prioritise addressing this environmental catastrophe”.

Gerry Darby from the group said: “It has come as no surprise that the algae is back with a vengeance, as it was only a matter of time with the right weather conditions that it would reappear.”


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