Council restricts a tranquil sport for ‘common good of the community’

DUN LAOGHAIRE Rathdown County Council, in its wisdom, has seen fit to propose a change in the by-laws regarding the coastline stretching from Booterstown to Bray, prohibiting “fishing for pleasure” in all but two very small areas — Bullock and Collimore harbours.

Having perused the proposed by-laws it would be easy to think one was inspecting a document in a country run by martial law and not a democratic state.

The county council states that this move is in the “interest of the common good of the local community”.