RTÉ series sure to hook viewers

ONE of the country’s youngest trawler captains said he hopes a new fly-on-the-wall TV series will help people appreciate the risks and difficulties facing the Irish fishing fleet.

“People have no idea of what we have to go through — working 20 hours a day, seven days a week,” said Cathal O’Sullivan, 25.

Based in Castletownbere, he fishes 160km off the south coast on the €1 million 80-feet white fish seining vessel, The Tea Rose, owned by his brother-in-law Paddy O’Sullivan.