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A local TD is calling on Waterways Ireland to stop its new policy from going ahead as it is to effect businesses on the Shannon. Sinn Fein TD Martin Kenny has hit out at Waterways Ireland over its implementation of a newly-imposed licenses scheme for individuals and businesses using waterways…

The man who drowned in a canal in County Leitrim has been named locally as 50-year old Patrick Moffatt, of Lurga, Drumboylan. He was an employee of Waterways Ireland and it’s believed he was examining a lock on the Shannon-Erne waterway close to Leitrim Village at the time of the…