For the first time, a humpback whale was spotted near the mouth of a river in Ireland. The creature was seen swimming “way up” in the Shannon Estuary — which flows southwest into the ...

Natural World 2015-2016, Ireland's Wild River: The Mighty Shannon Ireland's Wild River: The Mighty Shannon Colin Stafford Johnson spends a year exploring Ireland’s wildest river, the Shannon.

And it remains true as Fermanagh venture from the River Shannon’s Pot on the Cavan border down to its mouth on the Clare-Limerick boundary in search of their own flow and early season momentum.