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Dec 11, 20243 min read
Fisheries allocations for 2025 - Ireland once again supposed to be grateful for crumbs of comfort
It was into the wee hours of Wednesday December 11th that the final touches were put to EU fishing quota allocations for Ireland’s share...
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ifsacormac
Dec 9, 20242 min read
Ireland’s fishing & farming communities - yet again no Government challenge against EU Commission
The corridors of power of Irish Government seem eerily quiet on this Monday morning on a day when farmers from all over Europe, including...
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ifsacormac
Nov 25, 20243 min read
Election promises - but who’s actually listening to the industry?
As we enter the final run-in of general election week everyone in the Irish fishing and seafood sectors will by now have been bombarded...
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ifsacormac
Nov 19, 20243 min read
Cards on the table
With the election manifestos of the three main parties of Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and Sinn Féin now in the public domain, the people of...
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ifsacormac
Nov 7, 20243 min read
An industry caught between politics and poverty
The line from the 1940s Ernest Hemingway book says “ Ask not for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee ” very much sums up the current...
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ifsacormac
Oct 21, 20247 min read
CFP reform must address the basics of an unjust system
A tangled web of deceptive bureaucracy, the 40-year-old Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) is seen by the Irish fishing industry as a grossly...
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ifsacormac
Oct 18, 20245 min read
A Minister in hiding at a time of crisis
No political substance in defence of the Irish fishing industry Editorial Comment Cormac Burke, Chairman IFSA Despite year after year of...
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ifsacormac
Oct 14, 20245 min read
The lost tribe
Across the world today, October 14th, is ‘Indigenous People’s Day’ and is set aside to mark recognition and identification of those...
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ifsacormac
Oct 3, 20245 min read
A CON JOB
Following release of the Government Budget for 2025, which was accompanied with much fanfare and political spin as being the ‘great...
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ifsacormac
Sep 30, 20243 min read
NORWAY’S ABUSE OF MACKEREL STOCK MUST BE HALTED
ICES issues stark scientific advice for mackerel - EU pelagic fishing Member States once again to pay the price for Norway’s flagrant...
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ifsacormac
Sep 23, 20245 min read
Managing the Irish fishing industry - - an iron fist in a velvet glove
Two contrasting events of the past few days very much highlight the current state of the Irish fishing industry — editorial comment,...
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ifsacormac
Sep 11, 20243 min read
The law is an ass
Generally attributed to Charles Dickens, the phrase ' The law is an ass ' is a derisive expression said when the rigid application of the...
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ifsacormac
Sep 5, 20243 min read
A different perspective
Editorial comment Cormac Burke, IFSA One can’t but help notice the public uproar this week with the exposure of the fact that the...
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ifsacormac
Aug 21, 20245 min read
Ever-decreasing circles
With the current period of quiet in the industry in July and August due to so many State, civil servant and semi State bodies on summer...
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ifsacormac
Aug 6, 20242 min read
Crocodile tears
Editorial Comment Cormac Burke, IFSA In a podcast interview with Tom MacSweeney, the marine minister accepts that morale is low in the...
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ifsacormac
Aug 1, 20246 min read
Sh*t or get off the pot
The Irish fishing industry is in the most dire situation it has ever seen in its history - - indeed one could say its in a terminal state...
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ifsacormac
Jul 20, 20243 min read
Ireland, the butt of the ‘EU fisheries’ joke
As far as Ireland, and the Irish fishing industry, is concerned, the days of the slightest hint of ‘proportional representation’ are...
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ifsacormac
Jul 17, 20245 min read
EU PROPAGANDA
EU Fisheries Commission propaganda article makes outrageous claim that Ireland is ‘better off’ under the Common Fisheries Policy “ I...
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ifsacormac
Jul 12, 20245 min read
A sledgehammer to crack a nut
The Irish fishing industry - - top heavy governance? Editorial comment - Cormac Burke, IFSA It’s sadly ironic to say that for an industry...
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ifsacormac
Jul 4, 20244 min read
A Government-authorized attack on the Irish fishing industry
SFPA and 25 armed Garda raid offices of the largest fishing company in the southeast “without any obvious justification” “This is blatant...
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