Irish Examiner view: Time for Ireland to claim Rockall

Fishing dispute escalates as impact of Brexit bites

The boarding by a British patrol boat of an Irish fishing vessel in international waters is a regrettable, disturbing, and unwarranted escalation of the ongoing dispute over Rockall, an uninhabitable granite islet situated in the North Atlantic Ocean. 

Barely had the new year dawned than a Marine Scotland patrol boat blocked a Donegal fishing vessel from entering the waters around Rockall.