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Home to roost

Perhaps a controversial notion but should the industry have sympathy for SFPA staff who are suffering under the same yolk as fishermen?...

ifsacormac

Jan 17, 20223 min read

The emperor has no clothes….

Despite consistent attempts to portray itself to the EU Fisheries Commission, the Irish Government and the general public as a serious...

ifsacormac

Jan 11, 20226 min read

YOUR VOICE IN OUR INDUSTRY

Dear IFSA supporters and friends, As we enter the second year of the Irish Fishing & Seafood Alliance I would like to thank the many...

ifsacormac

Jan 6, 20221 min read

The year of the Tiger

Few in the Irish fishing industry will mourn the passing of 2021 – the darkest year in living memory for this sector. I could list the...

ifsacormac

Jan 4, 20222 min read

THE GHOST OF CHRISTMAS PAST….

An editorial comment by Cormac Burke, Chairman, Irish Fishing and Seafood Alliance As the Irish fishing and processing industry stands...

ifsacormac

Dec 16, 20214 min read

What the Minister didn’t say…

The fishing industry last week witnessed the ‘state of the nation’ address on the current situation in the industry and, as one fishermen...

ifsacormac

Dec 14, 20215 min read

Alarm bells instead of Christmas bells for Irish quotas

As predicted by the IFSA last week, its beginning to dawn on everyone that Ireland is unbelievably facing even more cuts at the December...

ifsacormac

Dec 9, 20212 min read

Time for Minister to show some backbone

As the dreaded December Council quota talks loom ever nearer it is incredible to even consider that Ireland is likely to see even more...

ifsacormac

Dec 3, 20212 min read

You don’t know what you’re doing…

Ireland’s continuing era of quota mismanagement As we near the end of a year that will be remembered by the fishing industry as ‘black...

ifsacormac

Nov 26, 20212 min read

Getting to the truth

Last weekend (Saturday November 20th) there was an interesting report from Sean Moroney from ‘The Fisher’s Voice’ in which he reveals a...

ifsacormac

Nov 22, 20215 min read

So many questions, so few answers…

In the wake of the BREXIT fiasco and the subsequent Trade & Co-Operation Agreement (TCA), it is obvious how badly the Irish fishing and...

ifsacormac

Nov 17, 20215 min read

A pig with lipstick is still a pig…

The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) has today (11th November 2021) released its annual report for 2020 (including...

ifsacormac

Nov 11, 20213 min read

Get change or get out!

Some 11 months of the worst deal in the history of Irish fishing has passed and has been followed ever since with much talk about the...

ifsacormac

Nov 4, 20213 min read

OPEN LETTER - A TRAIL OF TEARS

As I was driving home to Donegal from Dublin via Northern last week I was thinking of the amount of people that had tragically died and...

ifsacormac

Oct 26, 20213 min read

Scheming schemes

More corruption behind the smoke and mirrors With the final report from the Seafood Task Force now released it would appear that once...

ifsacormac

Oct 21, 20213 min read

An industry abandoned by Government

The Irish Government recently announced its annual budget and, amidst the usual areas to get ‘hit’ and the odd social welfare item to get...

ifsacormac

Oct 19, 20214 min read

Self praise instead of shame

On this day, Monday 11th October 2021, the Irish fisheries minister issued a public statement welcoming the final report from a Task...

ifsacormac

Oct 11, 20214 min read

BIM & SFPA red tape denying tie-up scheme benefits to small boat fishermen

By now most people in the fishing industry will be aware of the compensatory ‘tie-up’ scheme which is intended to give fishermen a form...

ifsacormac

Oct 6, 20210 min read

Government fiddles while the fishing industry burns

An editorial comment by Cormac Burke, Chairman of the Irish Fishing and Seafood Alliance (IFSA) There are so many issues of discontent in...

ifsacormac

Oct 5, 20210 min read

Yet another fisheries court case lost by the Department of Marine - but who really pays the price?

This week’s Court of Appeal’s decision to over-rule the Minister and his Department’s fight against a previous High Court ruling that...

ifsacormac

Sep 27, 20210 min read

Home to roost

The emperor has no clothes….

YOUR VOICE IN OUR INDUSTRY

The year of the Tiger

THE GHOST OF CHRISTMAS PAST….

What the Minister didn’t say…

Alarm bells instead of Christmas bells for Irish quotas

Time for Minister to show some backbone

You don’t know what you’re doing…

Getting to the truth

So many questions, so few answers…

A pig with lipstick is still a pig…

Get change or get out!

OPEN LETTER - A TRAIL OF TEARS

Scheming schemes

An industry abandoned by Government

Self praise instead of shame

BIM & SFPA red tape denying tie-up scheme benefits to small boat fishermen

Government fiddles while the fishing industry burns

Yet another fisheries court case lost by the Department of Marine - but who really pays the price?

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