The recent water shortages on the Royal Canal had me seeking information. I turned, of course, to the website of the Royal Canal Amenity Group but found it completely useless: it appeared to be entirely ignorant of the closure of the summit level of the Royal Canal.
I have visited the website for another look. The promised PDFs of the RCAG newsletter are not there. There is a link to a Facebook page that cannot be found, although the Flickr link does work.
The Events page lists events for 2011, with nothing for 2012. The History section stops before restoration was completed. Fifteen branches are listed but there are no links to any branch pages.
No branch is listed at Abbeyshrule, but I found what appears to be a separate body called Abbeyshrule Canal Group, which has a Facebook page that is updated fairly frequently.
So where is RCAG? And what is it doing to communicate with the general public — and with its non-local members?
Irish waterways history 
Hmm, many English canals have equally hopeless websites, where the last update was about 18 months ago. This kind of thing really doesn’t cut it in the Internet age!