Mick Doyle’s New MFV Paula
Arrives Home to Killybegs With
Its First Catch
At 2.30pm on the 13th December 2011 the new MFV Paula made its way to the Killybegs pier to unload its first haul of fish – 750 tonne of mackerel. The vessel had made its maiden journey home to Killybegs on the day when the highest wave ever formed in Irish waters was recorded off the coast of Donegal coupled with massive westerly winds according to the Irish National Meteorological Service.

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County-Wide Group Opposes
North Dublin Sewage Plant Plan
Towns and villages across North Dublin have come together in an unprecedented alliance to oppose plans for a regional sewage plant in the area. Nine sites across North County Dublin have been identified as possible locations for the new wastewater treatment facility that will be second only in size to Ringsend. The new plant is central to a €2.2bn plan to also upgrade a number of treatment facilities on the east coast, provide an orbital sewer and modernise the region’s drainage network. A preferred site for the sewage plant is expected to chosen by late next year.

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MFV “Paula” making her way into Killybegs harbour for the first time.
Photo by John Cunningham

Fisherman Aidan Leonard from Rush, joins
the Reclaim Fingal Alliance to deliver thousands
of letters of objection against a new regional
super sewage treatment plant in the Fingal
County Council area.

Fisherman Blames Harbour Fees
for Lost Vessel
Dingle fisherman Eddie Moore told the Marine Times that the recent loss of his vessel, Noreen Bawn, was due to what he called ‘punitive harbour fees’ at the port. “The Noreen Bawn has been in my family since 1984 and we always paid our dues on her. But since her licence was removed she was classed as a hulk and I couldn’t afford to keep her in Dingle because the charges were so high. I was told she could be re-registered as a leisure boat and I was considering that option. Meanwhile, because of the fees, I had to take her out of the harbour and moored her in Ballydavid,” he said.

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Doran’s on the Pier recently celebrated their
50th Anniversary of opening business in Howth originally as Lett Doran. Pictured at the
celebrations are (l-r): Sean Doran, Philip O’Neill (Retired skipper of Shelmalier), Muriel Doran
and Paul Healy (Skipper/Owner of Endeavour)

Launch of Locally Built Currachs to Take Place at Fish Ireland

Six 14 foot Currachs of Gola design are presently being built in Killybegs and all will be officially launched accompanied by the Killybegs band at the Bi-annual Killybegs Fish Ireland Boat show which will be held on Friday 29th & Saturday 30th June 2012. The currachs are skin-covered timber-framed boats of a type in widespread use until recently on the west coast of Ireland and believed to have a long ancestry running back into prehistoric times.

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Cobh – Cork’s Iconic Maritime Town
Cobh is an iconic part of Ireland’s maritime history, connected to the return of the Irish ports to national control when the country became a fully-fledged republic in 1938; the centre of British Royal Naval operations for centuries before that; the location of Ireland’s only island prison from where opponents of the British administration were, amongst many others, transported to Van Diemen’s land; its connections with the sunken liners Lusitania and Titanic; the port from which 2.5 million Irish people emigrated; for many years it was the location of the oldest yacht club in the world and also in years past, a herring landing port and, across the harbour waters from it is the base home of the Irish Naval Service on Haulbowline Island. If any town is a historic maritime location in this island nation it is Cobh, the name it adopted when the British designation, Queenstown, was dropped.

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