Where have all crabs gone? Surely not to Maine

Great hullabaloo on Courtmacsherry pier the other morning with dozens of boys and girls (and old boys and old girls) hauling onion bags stuffed with fish debris out of the sea and shaking the shore crabs hanging onto them into buckets, fish boxes and barrels.

The annual Crab Fishing event on the summer festival was in full swing.

The winning team, four boys and two girls of assorted Gannons, Noonans and Hegartys, landed 214 green crabs. The previous year, two Gannons and two Noonans took the trophy, with a count of 1,250 and many teams scored over 300. The total landed in 2014 was 5,030.