Rally urges Government to end salmon drift netting

MORE than 4,000 anglers from all over the country delivered a strong message to the Government at the weekend - end drift netting for salmon now.

What was said to be the biggest ever assembly of anglers took place outside the Fianna Fáil Ard Fheis, at the Gleneagle Hotel, Killarney. The Government was told it was time it took issue by the ‘scruff of the neck’.

Minister of State for the Marine Pat The Cope Gallagher and Tourism Minister John O’Donoghue did not address the rally. Instead, they spoke briefly with and accepted a letter of protest from Niall Greene, chairman of Stop Now.