fishing industry
A series of articles about the Irish fishing industry - one of Ireland's few remaining indigenous industries.
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Gaza flotilla vessels boarded by Israeli forces — a number of Irish activists detained
Israeli commandos have boarded at least four boats in the Global Sumud Flotilla to Gaza and a number of Irish people are believed to among those detained.Kieran Andrrieu, a journalist from Novara Media aboard the Adara boat, said in a live link on YouTube: "The whole flotilla is being intercepted."Shortly after 7pm (Irish time) confirmation began that boats were being intercepted. Those that were boarded were hosed with jets of water and large blinding lights were shone into the cabin areas.A sh...
C&AG: Properties used by IPAS lacked proper documentation
Due diligence documentation provided for 20 sample properties used by the International Protection Accommodation Service (IPAS) was “significantly incomplete”, staff from the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (C&AG) discovered.Insurance certificates were only available for 40% of the properties, and appropriate fire certificates clearly covering the proposed properties were only available for 45%.None of the fire certificates examined identified the proposed occupancy level for the p...
Jim Gavin and Heather Humphreys crisscross Kerry as voters lament limited presidential choice
Three farmers innocently enjoying pints at Listowel yesterday afternoon either had their fingers firmly pressed in the bellybutton of the presidential election zeitgeist with their view of things, or they were not far off.Sitting at their trackside perch, they were each asked who would win, who they would vote for, and what did they think.What they had to say is what most people said when asked in a not-very-scientific piece of research carried out by this reporter.While one was voting for “none...
Áras hopeful Jim Gavin did not know about abuse of female officers in Defence Forces
Presidential hopeful Jim Gavin has said he would have acted immediately on any allegation of a soldier being mistreated or abused, if anybody had told him.In Dublin on Thursday, he told reporters he did not “see” anybody suffering abuse and, when asked by the Irish Examiner if he was "aware" of the abuse, he said: "If I was aware, I would have taken immediate action.” He also said nobody who suffered abuse when he served in the Air Corps had asked him to advocate on their behalf.“Since I got in...
If elected, Humphreys pledges to continue to call out genocide as Michael D has done
If elected president, Heather Humphreys has said she will continue calling out what she sees as genocide committed by Israel in Gaza, as Michael D Higgins has done and is “right to do”.However, the Fine Gael candidate said her presidency will more resemble that of Belfast-born Mary McAleese, who succeeded Ireland’s first female president Mary Robinson after being nominated by Fianna Fáil and served from November 1997 to November 2011.Ms Humphreys said: “I want to build on the work of president M...
Mary Robinson labels Donald Trump 'stupid' and a 'bully'
Former Irish president and UN high commissioner for human rights Mary Robinson has labelled Donald Trump “stupid” and a “bully” who is complicit in the famine and genocide in Gaza.In a no-holds-barred TV interview, she condemned the US president’s stance on climate change.She also urged him to end Israel's war on Gaza, which she said he is “largely responsible for”.She was asked a series of questions after Mr Trump’s controversial and scathing hour-long address to the UN, in which he told Europ...
Dublin Airport terminal reopens after suspicious baggage sparks security alert
Terminal 2 at Dublin Airport has been given the all-clear after being evacuated earlier today when a suspicious item was detected in security scanners.The suspect device appears to be some form of medical apparatus, the Irish Examiner understands.The Defence Forces' Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) team earlier left Terminal 2 after conducting an inspection of the device.Gardaí say, following a preliminary examination at the scene, the item of luggage was contained and removed from the termina...
Kerry murder mystery: Michael Gaine’s killing and the haunted life of suspect Michael Kelley
The appearance of Ireland’s best known self-declared murder suspect at the door of a Kerry legal practice hardly raises an eyebrow anymore.As Michael Kelley peered cautiously out from the darkened entrance of Pat Mann’s Ashe Street practice in Tralee on Tuesday, passersby barely gave him a double take.After brief hesitation, and a quick look up and down the street, the 53-year-old stepped into the bright sunlit street and walked quickly away.Free to come and go as he pleases after being released...
Something to celebrate: Kerry village buys the local pub rather than let it disappear
For a Gaeltacht community of just over 400 people, Dromid is not doing too bad.While other parts of rural Ireland have seen the slow disintegration of vital services, this part of the Iveragh Peninsula in Co Kerry is raising a glass to toast its fight against creeping rural decline.One of its local churches, in Mastergeehy, is now an Airbnb holiday let and its nearest post office closed in 2018. But, rather than just accept the closure, members of the community applied for and got the local shop...
Inland Fisheries Ireland expands search into River Blackwater fish kill cause
Inland Fisheries Ireland has expanded its search for the cause of Ireland’s largest fish kill.In a statement issued on Tuesday evening, it said staff had completed more than 110 habitat inspections at 45 locations since the incident was reported on August 11.Staff are now conducting additional inspections on the River Blackwater to assess the scale of mortalities and the waters affected.They are also using drones and kayak patrols over an extended stretch of river to survey the scene.The Irish...
Government expected to tender for upgrade of country's public warning system
The Government is expected to start tendering for the country’s Cell Broadcast Public Warning System.The system will see Ireland operating a public warning system, similar to those already in use in other countries around the world. In Spain, block messages and other alerts are sent whenever there is an imminent danger of flooding.The UK tested its own Emergency Alert Service, which was established in April 2023, at the weekend, with people living on the border counties warned in advance the tes...
Cork councillor calls for publicly funded childcare model to tackle ‘perfect storm’ in services
A Cork City Council councillor has called for a publicly funded childcare model, based on existing services, to be piloted in the city to address a "perfect storm” brewing in childcare.Ciara O’Connor says the “dire shortage” of pre-school and early years cover for working parents shows a “desperate need” for State intervention.The South West Ward Labour councillor is seeking city council support for a new model that the government could trial in Cork.Her call, due before the council’s Community...
TD wants EPA and Inland Fisheries Ireland to account for their actions after Blackwater fish kill
A TD has called for the Environmental Protection Agency and Inland Fisheries Ireland to account for their actions in relation to what is Ireland's biggest fish kill.Up to 50,000 fish died in the River Blackwater after pollution on or around August 11 is believed to have entered the river via one of its tributaries, the River Allow.Since then, the EPA and IFI have launched a number of investigations to find out who or what caused it, but they have yet to formally isolate the source of the polluti...
Autism group in Cork forced to stop accepting new members due to lack of space
The only autism group of its kind in Ireland has been forced to close to new members because of increased demand for its services.Cork’s Rainbow Club, which offers support for people with autism and their families, has grown too big to meet demand.Its current premises are too small for further expansion, and its staff and volunteers will now concentrate on their existing 1,352 members, who will not be affected by the decision.The club, based in the Mahon Community Centre, is due to move to bigge...
Search ongoing in Cork for further nests of Asian hornets
Wildlife experts are continuing to scour an area in Cork where a nest of potentially deadly Asian hornets was found on Wednesday to make sure there are no more there.The nest, at an undisclosed location, is the first to be found in this country and was described by Christopher O’Sullivan, the minister of state for nature, heritage and biodiversity, as “worrying”.Threat to humans and honeybees That is not only as they can be a danger to humans — a single sting with their highly-poisonous venom ca...
Small but deadly: Asian hornets that have arrived in Ireland can pack a powerful punch
For an insect little more than an inch long, the yellow-footed bee-eating Asian hornet, a nest of which were discovered in Cork recently packs a deadly punch, with a sting that has been likened to a hot nail piercing skin.While they are primarily after our honeybees and pose a threat to the pollination process, these non-native hornets can be deadly to humans too in certain circumstances.Equipped with poisonous venoms, a single sting from one of them can prove fatal to anybody allergic to wasp s...
Anglers outraged as fresh pollution hits Cork’s River Blackwater after 50,000 fish killed
Further pollution has hit the River Blackwater in Co Cork, angering anglers who are furious that the cause of a fish kill at the beginning of the month, which killed up to 50,000 fish, still hasn’t been identified.The latest leak into the river was spotted just downstream of Fermoy Bridge on Thursday evening. It was filmed by locals who said the stench was horrendous.Inland Fisheries Ireland (IFI) officials have visited the scene to carry out tests. Anglers reported a small number of dead fish d...
Cork flooding: OPW minister pledges to speed up €5.8m Midleton home protection scheme
OPW minister Kevin Boxer Moran has vowed to speed up the roll-out of a €5.8m scheme designed to help protect individual houses in a Cork town from flooding. Set up last year, about 650 of the 725 valid applications for the Midleton and East Cork Individual Property Protection (IPP) Scheme funding have yet to be completed, according to figures from Cork County Council last month. Residents from Midleton, who met the minister at a public meeting in Castlemartyr National School, East Cork, want th...
Watch: Chemical spill suspected to be cause of Cork's River Blackwater fish kill disaster
Test results are due this week to establish the cause of pollution that killed more than 50,000 fish in one of Ireland’s best salmon fishing rivers.Investigators hope the results will reveal what chemicals caused one of the largest fish kills in the history of the State.The disaster, along a 40km stretch of the River Blackwater in north County Cork, was initially believed to have been caused by a bacterial infection.But Inland Fisheries Ireland (IFI) and the Marine Institute have since suggested...
CUMH apologises for delay in telling mother of changes there since her baby son's death
Cork University Maternity Hospital staff have apologized to the mother of a baby who died in their care for delays she later faced when trying to find out what had changed at the hospital since his death.The apology comes more than 16 months after the March 2024 inquest into Elijah O’Sullivan’s death on May 6, 2022, recorded a verdict of medical misadventure.The Cork City Coroner's Court heard opportunities to save him were missed by staff a day after first-time mother Rachel Harrington, aged 25...
Midleton locals seek volunteer 'flood buddies' to help vulnerable residents in event of flood
Residents in Midleton are looking for volunteer “flood buddies” to help vulnerable people in the town in the event of a flood.They are wanted to help in the event houses in the town are hit by the sort of floods that wreaked havoc there during Storm Babet nearly two years ago.Ideally, they should be young, fit, able-bodied and able to drive.Organiser and Midleton woman Caroline Leahy, a member of the Midleton and East Cork Flood Protection Group, said: “Residents were left to their own devices f...
'We don't need to follow tradition': Katelyn Cummins champions women in trades after Rose of Tralee win
The new Rose of Tralee said she is delighted to raise awareness that women “don’t need to go to college” to succeed in life.Interviewed immediately after winning last night, Katelyn Cummins was asked how she felt about the attention she has received as an apprentice electrician.The 20-year-old, the first-ever Rose of Tralee from Laois, said: “I absolutely love it.“I think it's great to get the awareness out there that women can do whatever we want, and we don't need a statement around (it).“We d...
Alcohol abuse costing €8.5bn in workplace productivity
Alcohol abuse is costing the country €8.5bn a year in lost workplace productivity, according to Alcohol Action Ireland(AAI).The independent national advocacy group says the impact alcohol has is so great the Government should implement policies to reduce consumption and, in turn, make the economy “more robust and competitive”.While alcohol’s impact on the health service and the criminal justice system is well known, according to the body, a less well-known impact is on the workplace. In its 'Alc...
Rose of Tralee Night Two: 'We need festivals to celebrate women. We need these spaces'
Just when the Rose of Tralee appeared to have finally shed its image of a Father Ted parody centred around a fictional Lovely Girls competition, RTÉ’s Kathryn Thomas revived it all over again.The co-presenter of this year’s second of two selection nights asked the Limerick Rose what she thought about critics of the contest who label it a “beauty pageant” or a “lovely girls competition”.In those few short seconds, she reopened a debate many have long since believed is over.Commentators have long...
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