As recently as October of last year, eco socialist TD Paul Murphy of People Before Profit was urging the government to cull the national herd for environmentalist reasons. Murphy insisted that Ireland’s national herd “absolutely has to be cut if we are to meet our climate targets.” Far-left TD Paul Murphy has insisted that Ireland’s […]
Since assuming office, the government have crucified the Irish fishing industry through massive fish quota losses and a raft of new stringent regulations and penalties, Michael Collins TD has said. Speaking with the Rural Independent Group, the Cork South West TD slammed what he described the government’s “gigantic failures” – to protect Ireland’s fishing interests, […]
A Cork TD has accused the government of “allowing an act of piracy” after what he described as the “harrassment and intimidation of a Castletownbere fishing trawler by a Spanish fishing vessel last weekend”. Rural Independent TD for Cork South West, Michael Collins said the government had failed to take action after the Irish fishing […]
“HEADS NEED TO ROLL” – Independent Cork TD Michael Collins rips government failures in the fishing industry ahead of a major Cork harbour fishing protest this week. #gript
A Cork TD has accused both the Taoiseach and the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine of gross negligence and failing in their duty to protect the Irish Fishing sector. Rural Independent TD Michael Collins said that he had challenged the Taoiseach, the Minister and the Sea Fisheries Protection Authority (SFPA) on what he […]
Chairman of the IFSA Cormac Burke told Gript.ie that large quantities of fish will be “ruined” if the SFPA implements new quay-side weighing methods following the EU Commission’s removal of Ireland’s weighing derogation.
Patrick Murphy, CEO of the Irish South and West Fish Producers, says that Ireland’s fish are being given away for the benefit of Europe. #gript
The crew had travelled approximately 240 nautical miles to get to the haddock-rich waters, but were forced to retreat following the intervention.
Rural Independent TD Michael Colllins has slammed the government for abandoning the fishing sector and coastal communities in a Brexit trade-off which destroys the Irish fishing sector while costing thousands of jobs in rural coastal communities. Speaking from his Cork South West Constituency today (Tuesday 5 January 2021) Deputy Collins stated: “The ramifications of the […]
“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 sacrifice of the Irish fishery by incompetent negotiators prior to the state’s entry to what is now the EU in 1973, has long been regarded as one of the great betrayals of Irish sovereignty. Curiously, Ireland along with Norway in 1971 refused to accept the fishing proposals in which Irish, British and Norwegian waters […]
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 […]