Local lobbyists swimming against political tide

TRADITIONAL fishermen, anglers and sailors, bed and breakfast-owners, hoteliers, harbour commissioners and environmentalists along with peninsula residents — it’s a disparate bunch.

But that’s a cross-section of the support lining up alongside a Save Bantry Bay lobby group in West Cork.

Save Bantry Bay was formed to fight plans by Marine Harvest to build a €3.5m organic salmon fish farm off Shot Head at Adrigole on the Beara Peninsula.