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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Sep 303 min
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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Sep 235 min
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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Sep 113 min
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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Sep 53 min
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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Aug 215 min
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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Aug 62 min
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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Aug 16 min
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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Jul 203 min
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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Jul 175 min
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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Jul 125 min
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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Jul 44 min
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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Jul 38 min
IRELAND MUST STOP THE SFPA ROT!
SFPA to repeat bullying tactic of hitting out when under pressure as Killybegs’ pelagic skippers to be hauled into court for incorrect...
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Jul 27 min
Minister avoiding the real problems in the pelagic sector
“The Minister’s Irish fleet landing proposal does nothing aside from attempt to mask his failings in recovering a single kilo of quota...
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ifsacormac
Jun 253 min
Ireland - no substance in EU talks
McConalogue’s efforts at the EU table can be described by the song ‘You say it best when you say nothing at all…..’ Editorial Comment...
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ifsacormac
Jun 195 min
The not so ‘common’ CFP
CFP - will an ‘evaluation’ actually mean any reform? Don’t hold your breath! Well here we go…. The ‘think tank’ of EU fisheries policy...
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ifsacormac
Jun 103 min
The Irish fishing industry - -the dirty words in the corridors of power
The revelations by Tom MacSweeney in the latest edition of Marine Times (June 2024) that not one single party leader in the current Irish...
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ifsacormac
May 275 min
The CFP - the greatest scam in modern history
The Common Fisheries Policy - - an EU-driven strategy of victimisation that sees the rich get richer and the poor get poorer as Ireland...
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May 204 min
A new low for the Irish fishing industry
A shocking story reported to the IFSA from the reliable source of a well-known local Killybegs fisherman, claims that on Friday last, the...
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Apr 293 min
Ireland green with envy as other governments support their fishing industries
Cormac Burke, IFSA The Irish fishing industry can only look on jealously as it is looking likely that the Spanish Government is committed...
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