Getting the goods part 1: Ireland's ports in the Brexit storm

Sarah Ledwith, who works for the Dublin Port Company, and is Ireland’s first female pilot, on her way to be taken out to an oil tanker in Dublin Bay which she navigated into the port. Picture: Neil Michael

As Ireland struggles with the twin challenges of Covid-19 and adjusting to new supply chains since Brexit, in the first part of our a weekly  series, Neil Michael meets the people who get the goods into Ireland.

Catching drug smugglers, laying Russian submarine detector alarms off the Scottish coast, and decommissioning North Sea oil wells might not be the sort of thing you would expect a Dublin Port Company pilot to have done.