Irish General Election-Garda interference in post-election debate

February 29, 2020

The results of the Feb 8th General Election in the Republic showed significant changes from previous ones where one or other of the two conservative parties   (Fianna Fail and Fine Gael) won the majority of seats. This time around Sinn Féin made

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‘A Bridge Too Far’

February 12, 2020

‘The Boris Beaufort Bridge’ agenda is to the fore and we will leave it to you is it ‘flight or fancy’. Whatever…the project if realised it has to go across the North Channel and through one of the worst contaminated (if not they

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‘Daddy’ of all Super Trawlers in the Minch

February 12, 2020

Just an update (following the earlier post on Super trawlers in the Irish and Celtic Seas) on some of the larger super trawlers which are fishing off the West of Britain at present: The ‘Dirk Dirk’ (NL register 3200 tonne) and ‘Frank Bonefass’

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Storm Ciara Doesn’t Foil Super Trawlers

February 12, 2020

With ships lying up in the Irish Sea to avoid Storm Ciara a worrying sight is the Dutch Super Trawler Willem Van Der Zwann which came up through the Celtic Sea and into the Irish sea last night. At the time she was

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