The crew had travelled approximately 240 nautical miles to get to the haddock-rich waters, but were forced to retreat following the intervention.
The EU blinked. There’s no point in attempting to put a gloss on it. You know the kind of thing: “This is not a time for triumphalism…” On the contrary, yes, it is. Europe should celebrate the Free Trade Agreement negotiated by Boris Johnson because it is a vindication of what democracy is about, and […]
“The promises of standing by the fishermen of our island nation was forgotten only a few days past, when news broke that Michel Barnier offered 18% of what can only be Irish fish to the UK.”
The EU’s pre- Christmas Summit, on 10/11th December, is just over a week away. Brexit looms, of course, but the make or break issue on the table is the EU’s €1.8 trillion fiscal response to impact of the Covid-19 endemic. This pivotal initiative has been in stasis for almost six months. The reason is a […]
The author, Dominik Michalik, is a Polish Citizen living in Dublin In recent days there has been a move by the European Union to tie funding for EU projects to the “rule of law”. This has been widely interpreted – including by Guy Verhofstadt – to mean denying funding to Poland and Hungary because of […]
Much is being made here of Biden being a “friend indeed to Ireland.” Actually if you examine these paeans what you generally find is that the purveyor of this means that he will be a friend to their friends, and unlike Trump, knows some mediocre poet who is also their chum. Real cosmopolitans are our […]
The EU Economic Policy Committee has confirmed that the climate finance support provided by the EU and its member states (the UK included) amounted to €23.2 billion in 2019, a 6.9% increase compared to 2018. The total without the UK stood at €21.9 billion, a 7.4% increase compared to the total for the EU […]
On Tuesday, Taoiseach Micheál Martin reported back to the Dáil from the weekend’s EU Council meeting in Brussels. The main issue of concern was the implications of the lack of an agreement between the Commission and London prior to Britain leaving the EU at the end of December. Martin echoed the Brussels line that the […]
Senator Ronan Mullen’s motion calling on the Irish state to condemn Chinese treatment of the Uyghur Muslim people and to use its position on the United Nations Security Council to that end was passed without opposition on October 8th. Credit is due to the Senator for his initiative, and Aontú for protesting against the effective […]
Eel Fisherman, Seán Doherty of Cheekpoint, Co Waterford dumps thousands of Euro worth of fish in the Waterford Estuary as the state’s total ban on eel fishing continues. The Irish government introduced a total ban on eel fishing in 2010 in an effort to allow the stocks to replenish. Local fishermen say that they are being […]
The deliberate setting on fire of the Moria migrant camp on the Greek island of Lesbos has led to a renewed campaign by European Pollyannas to pressurise EU member states to take in more people. Leftists in the European Parliament, including the GUE/NGL of which Sinn Féin is a member have demanded that all 12,500 […]
On the 18th of March this year a German court convicted two former London-based investment bankers for their involvement in a criminal tax fraud that has “left treasuries across Europe tens of billions of euros out of pocket.” Then in June, the same Court published an anonymised 299-page version of its decision in which it […]