It takes approximately twenty seconds of travel on a canal barge to seriously consider moving to a houseboat. We were on the Royal Canal, heading for a jaunt west, from Castleknock railway station to Clonsilla, and I was hooked. The heart rate slowed. I haven’t felt as one with my surroundings since the last time I had a bath.

Gardaí are investigating the sudden death of a 50-year-old man after he was taken from a Dublin canal last night.

The Garda investigation into the murder of Kenneth O’Brien is gathering apace after human limbs were discovered along the Grand Canal.

The body of a man in his 20s has been recovered in Dublin.

The body of a woman has been found in the Royal Canal in Dublin.

A man whose bloodied body was found dumped in a suitcase in a Dublin canal was murdered in a contract "beating" that went too far, a murder trial jury at the Central Criminal Court heard today.