Calls have been made for additional lighting and increased policing in areas where people gather to socialise during good weather, following a weekend that saw rubbish lining Dublin’s Grand Canal.

Dublin city councillors will meet on Monday to discuss problems caused by large numbers of drinkers who gathered at the Grand Canal in Portobello, Dublin, at the weekend. Several hundred people ...

Rubbish lines streets of Dublin's Grand Canal after Gardaí cleared drinkers from the area on Friday night Footage shows the large volumes of rubbish, including bottles, cans, and plastic cups ...

Learn how the Guinness Brewery went from the humble beginnings of sailing barges down the River Liffey in Dublin to transporting cargo ships across the Irish Sea.

This story appears in the May 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. Grand Canal barges have no fancy names, no mermaids planted on the bow, no corny sayings painted on the stern. Instead ...