Offaly County Council has given the go ahead for a large floating jetty on the River Shannon in Offaly. Waterways Ireland ...

Jo Kerrigan takes us along the Shannon River Road. The longest river in Ireland and indeed longer than any in neighboring Great Britain, the Shannon rises from a dark and mysterious pool in County ...

In Ireland, the River Shannon meanders between wet marshes and green plains before ending its journey at Limerick, in an estuary populated by dolphins. A trip along Ireland’s longest river to discover ...

For the first time, a humpback whale was spotted near the mouth of a river in Ireland. The creature was seen swimming “way up” in the Shannon Estuary — which flows southwest into the Atlantic Ocean — ...

Waterways Ireland is proposing to dredge a section of the navigational channel of the Shannon, south of Meelick Lock.

The Irish government has agreed a €5bn (£4.2bn) project to build a water pipeline from the River Shannon to Dublin. It says the development is necessary to support housing and economic growth.

Natural World 2015-2016, Ireland's Wild River: The Mighty Shannon Ireland's Wild River: The Mighty Shannon Colin Stafford Johnson spends a year exploring Ireland’s wildest river, the Shannon.

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