Ireland's call: 'Something in the Atlantic Ocean, Celtic and Irish Seas calls to us from the deep'

MEP Grace O’Sullivan reflects on the call of the Ocean for Irish people and how a new approach to our seas could be Ireland’s own ‘Green Deal’

Grace O'Sullivan MEP in the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France.

In my early 20s, I thought heading off to sea for months at a time was a perfectly normal thing to do. My father had a small boat in the pier near home and we would go mackerel fishing in the summer back when mackerel was much more abundant than nowadays.