Sep 7, 2022 | Latest News, News Releases
Fishing bodies have described as positive a meeting they held with Tánaiste Leo Varadkar earlier this week, at his office in Government buildings. The meeting was arranged by the Manus Boyle and Declan Lovett of the Dunkineely and Killybegs Branch of Fine Gael ‘’This...
Sep 3, 2022 | Latest News, News Articles
Few contemporary Irish writers can give voice to a sense of place on the Atlantic seaboard in the way Mary O’Malley can, and no more so than in a recent poem inspired by a long walk during the early days of Covid-19. It describes how she stopped on a bridge as Galway...
Aug 31, 2022 | Latest News, News Articles
Plans to cut the Irish whitefish fleet by over 30% will not preserve fish stocks in Irish waters, the Irish Fish Producers Organisation has warned. The Killybegs-based group says the Marine Minister’s €60m decommissioning scheme will leave the stocks available to...
Aug 22, 2022 | Latest News, News Articles
An EUR 80 million (USD 79.8 million million) scheme to retire a third of the Irish fishing fleet won’t have the effect of preserving fish stocks and needs to be accompanied by a plan to make the sector “greener and more innovative,” according to the Irish Fish...
Aug 19, 2022 | Latest News, News Articles
Plans which will cut the Irish whitefish fleet by over 30% will not preserve fish stocks in Irish waters. That’s according to the Irish Fish Producers Organisation, who say European vessels will fish these stocks in our waters instead. The IFPO are responding to the...
Jul 24, 2022 | Latest News, News Articles
A deal struck over Brexit has only worsened life for Irish fishermen, who fear things are about to get even worse. Inside the biggest harbour in Ireland, at Killybegs in Co Donegal, skipper Michael Callaghan’s 50-metre fishing boat is tied up and going nowhere. Read...
