CATCHMENTS 2025 is supported by Taighde Éireann – Research Ireland* Discover Award, Creative Ireland, The Department of Education, seven county council arts offices and the UCD Earth Institute.

*Taighde Éireann – Research Ireland is the new national research and innovation funding agency, established on the 1st August 2024 through the amalgamation of the activities and functions of Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) and the Irish Research Council (IRC).

CATCHMENTS 2025 is supported  by the Creative Ireland Programme, an all-of-government five-year initiative, from 2023 to 2027, which places creativity at the centre of public policy. Further information from creativeireland.gov.ie.

The seven bodies of water we are studying in CATCHMENTS 2025:

1. •The Liffey Head Bog in County Wicklow
   

2. •The Dodder River in South Dublin County
   

3. •The Boyne River in County Meath
   

4. •Lough Muckno in County Monaghan
   

5. •The ‘old’ River Shannon at University of Limerick
   

6. •The Ballymacraven River at Ennistymon, Co. Clare
   

7. •The Lee Fields by the Weir and the Old Cork Waterworks in Cork City
   

Anne Cleary with Mary Kelly Quinn looking at macroinvertebbrates at the Liffey Head while filming ‘The Source’, 17 May 2025