Lifeboat taskings to rescue three women from the fast-flowing Corrib in Galway earlier this week have prompted the port’s harbour master to call for safety railings on the city’s riverbank.

Inland Fisheries Ireland (IFI) has called for a crackdown on fish farms after farmed salmon escaped into five river systems in the west of Ireland.

TEN days ago a public meeting was held in a hotel in Galway to discuss the threat posed to Lough Corrib by the invasion of an alien pond weed called Lagarosiphon major.