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A Donegal TD says reports that only two Naval ships are being left in operation to patrol the waters around Ireland is worrying for our fishing fleet and cruise ships visiting Ireland. Crew shortages have led to the other two vessels being withdrawn from service, meaning Ireland will have the…

A Donegal TD has slammed the Minister for Agriculture over his decision not to provide fuel supports to fishermen. Independent TD for Donegal, Thomas Pringle, has strongly hit out at the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, fellow Donegal TD Charlie McConalogue for failing to support fishermen with fuel…

Sligo MEP Chris Mcmanus will host a delegation of representatives from the fishing industry and fishing communities, from around Ireland, in Brussels today and tomorrow,   The delegation is travelling to make the case at the EU Parliament for Ireland’s fishing fleet to be allocated a fair share of the…

TDs and senators are expected to strongly challenge the Russian Ambassador to Ireland at a meeting next week. Yury Filatov has been invited to the Oireachtas foreign affairs committee, over his country’s planned military drills off the Irish coast. The fishing industry met him yesterday about the impact the exercises…

The Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine and Donegal TD Charlie McConalogue has announced the launch of a Brexit Temporary Fleet Tie-up Scheme. The scheme will help mitigate the impacts of quota cuts on the fishing fleet arising from the Trade and Cooperation Agreement agreed in December between the…