Nicholas Ashley-Cooper, 12th Earl of Shaftesbury, has never lived in Ireland but has managed to hang on to a colonial inheritance – ownership of the bed of Lough Neagh. This entitles him to royalties from the industrial dredging of sand, a practice environmentalists say is one factor in the ecological disaster at the lake. The… Read more »
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