Sep 26, 2022 | Latest News, News Articles
Fishing industry representatives say they are confounded and disappointed by the Government’s repeated refusal to draw down EU fuel aid. They met with the Minister for the Marine on Friday 23rd September and urged him to secure the existing EU aid to help with the...
Sep 8, 2022 | Latest News, News Articles
A meeting held this week between the Tanaiste and local fishing bodies has been described as positive. Leo Varadkar indicated that the government committed to working on sustaining the industry to coastal communities. The event has been described as a first step in a...
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...
