THE Irish Fishermen’s Organisation yesterday described as inconceivable that the European Commission would allow legal uncertainty to have developed around fishing in the Irish Box.

SENIOR civil servants are due to travel to Brussels next week for a meeting with European Commission officials in a bid to resolve the current legal uncertainty surrounding fishing in the Irish Box.

THE hypocrisy of Irish Government policy on fisheries is breathtaking.

FEARS that Spanish pressure could force the EU to abandon the protective measures in the Irish Box fishing waters were firmly outlined to EU Fisheries Commissioner Franz Fischler in Dublin yesterday.

Fishermen in Cork have blockaded the harbour at Castletownbere to display their anger at proposals to implement an open fishing policy in the Irish Box.