“We are bearing witness to a dying lough becoming a dead lough” The bed of Lough Neagh is being ripped apart on the Earl of Shaftesbury’s watch, and he and his estate at St Giles House, Wimborne St Giles, are profiting from this destruction #SaveLoughNeagh 1/3 www.irishnews.com/news/politic...

🗣️ 'The future won’t be built by recreating the flawed institutions of the past.' With talk of reviving the Civic Forum, our Head of Northern Ireland, @rebekahmccabe.bsky.social‬, argues for something deeper: a democracy designed *with* citizens. 📖 Read here 👇 www.newsletter.co.uk/news/opinion...

We desperately need more transparent, democratic processes for Lough Neagh’s future. We started the conversation on how that might look in March of this year, and we think there’s a clear path forward. Check out the video from ‘Who Speaks for the Lough’ and sign up for updates 👇🏻

"When a complex system is far from equilibrium, small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos have the capacity to shift the entire system to a higher order." Iya Prigogine, Noble prize-winning chemist

🌊 Who speaks for Lough Neagh?🌿 More than a lake—Lough Neagh is a lifeline, a habitat, a heritage. Pollution & political deadlock threaten its future. Could deliberative democracy offer a way forward? 🗣️ 📖 Read more: www.involve.org.uk/news-opinion... 🎫 and then join us 21 March 👉 lu.ma/pgdsvlwf

There needs to be greater transparency in responses to the ongoing crisis at Lough Neagh, a new report argues www.irishnews.com/news/norther...