Micheál Martin: Lough Neagh disaster should incentivise Northern parties to get back to work

 A mallard duck swims through the sludge of green algae at Kinnego Marina on Lough Neagh.

The deterioration of Ireland’s largest lake and the source of 40% of the North’s water should be yet another incentive for its paralysed political government to get back to work, according to Micheál Martin.

The Tánaiste was replying to a parliamentary question from Cork East TD Séan Sherlock about Lough Neagh, which has become an ecological and environmental disaster that experts say could take decades to reverse.