Midnight murder
EU to proceed with further fishing industry controls At a minute to midnight last night (30 May 2023), five years following the initial...
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ifsacormac
- May 24
- 4 min
The human cost of ‘green’ energy
Editorial comment by Cormac Burke, IFSA Traveling recently on the Belfast to Liverpool ferry my attention was drawn by a massive wind...
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ifsacormac
- Apr 25
- 4 min
SFPA onboard camera control - where will it all end?
As the SFPA quietly set about trying to ‘encourage’ vessel owners in to ‘voluntarily’ agree to have cameras installed on Irish demersal...
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ifsacormac
- Apr 18
- 2 min
A pig with lipstick is still a pig !
Editorial comment - Cormac Burke, IFSA “The Bord Iascaigh Mhara (BIM) Business of Seafood report launched by Minister for Agriculture,...
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ifsacormac
- Mar 21
- 3 min
The smell of something rotten in the Irish fishing industry!
[Although I am under doctor’s orders to stay off work for the next six to twelve weeks due to my serious accident last week I felt I had...
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ifsacormac
- Mar 13
- 5 min
State-sponsored harassment of Irish fishermen
- - no such thing as ‘coincidence’ in this industry Although on the face of it these feel like quiet times in the Irish fishing industry,...
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ifsacormac
- Feb 23
- 3 min
A voice in Europe
The Irish fishing industry needs all the support it can get . - Cormac Burke reports from Leinster House. . Perhaps Ash Wednesday, the...
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ifsacormac
- Feb 15
- 3 min
How the other half live
As ever it seems to have been, Ireland’s fishing industry remains in a perpetual state of depression, uncertainty and confusion. The...
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ifsacormac
- Feb 3
- 4 min
A decision that will sink or save this industry
“For the past two decades, at the various annual EU Council quota talks, Ireland’s negotiators viewed any quota reduction of 15% or less...
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ifsacormac
- Jan 30
- 2 min
SUPPORT THE IFSA
Dear IFSA friends, On behalf of the Irish Fishing & Seafood Alliance I would like to thank the many subscribers who continue to make the...
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ifsacormac
- Jan 20
- 5 min
Ireland’s ‘rip-off’ decommissioning scheme
I made the journey today (18th January) from Donegal to Limerick for the gathering of 57 fishermen / vessel owners who find themselves...
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ifsacormac
- Jan 11
- 3 min
AN OPEN LETTER
MINISTER, WE IDENTIFY AS 'FISHERMEN' AND NOT 'FISHERS' Dear Cormac, Having read the piece on Minister Charlie McConalogue’s Q&A in the...
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ifsacormac
- Jan 9
- 6 min
SHAMELESS !
There is genuine anger in the Irish fishing industry this Monday morning(January 9th) following the Irish Examiner’s weekend Q&A...
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ifsacormac
- Jan 4
- 4 min
Ireland to be the sacrificial lamb yet again
. DAFM officials not fighting a meek surrender of Irish blue whiting to Norway . Most people in the Irish fishing industry will by now be...
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ifsacormac
- Dec 20, 2022
- 1 min
Wishing everyone a very happy Christmas and a peaceful & safe New Year
To all IFSA supporters and friends
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ifsacormac
- Dec 9, 2022
- 5 min
Deliver us from evil
Editorial Comment In this proud maritime nation on the periphery of Western Europe, Ireland holds possession of some of the richest...
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ifsacormac
- Dec 5, 2022
- 1 min
The ‘not so green’ Department of Marine
On-shore power supply price rise by 378% forces return to diesel generators At a time when all Irish industry commercial sectors are...
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ifsacormac
- Nov 30, 2022
- 2 min
Changing of the guard
If it feels like an eerie silence has fallen upon the fishing industry in recent weeks it may be due to an uncomfortable sensation of not...
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ifsacormac
- Nov 7, 2022
- 2 min
SFPA - a tangled web of deceit
A statement last week by IFPEA chief Brendan Byrne that Ireland has a total of 241 fishery officers has been dismissed by the Sea...
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ifsacormac
- Oct 21, 2022
- 4 min
Time to face the music…
There must be accountability Today’s statement (Marine Times 21/10/22) that it would appear that Minister McConalogue is finally...
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