DONAL HICKEY: Eel fishing is slipping away

Those of us who grew up when the rivers of Ireland were full of fish understood the term, “as slippery as an eel”. Try to catch one and it would slip from your grasp. Now, eels have almost vanished.

In all the talk about rural decline and a disappearing way of life, the voices of fishing communities, which have been badly hit by cuts imposed by the EU and the Irish Governments, are not always heard.