Cathal McDonagh went swimming in a lake at the back of his garden in Castlerea, County Roscommon, and stumbled across a 17-foot longboat buried in the mud.
Majella Fagan, a holistic practitioner at Green Tara College, is campaigning against a contentious planning application that would allow a local meat factory to discharge waste water into the River Boyne through a proposed pipeline.
Most tourists, both Irish and international, will be unfamiliar with Rathcroghan in County Roscommon, but it used to be Ireland's ancient royal capital.
