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Happy German anglers on Killala Bay
Angling Notes: Irish Specimen Fish Committee veteran retires

THE universally popular Bridie Fleming has retired after 45 years working in the angling/business development division at Inland Fisheries Ireland. Th(...)

Geoffrey Fitzjohn with first salmon of 2017 from Kylemore Abbey Fishery at Tullywee Bridge Pool, caught on a Black Shrimp size 8
Angling Notes: plan to introduce students to fly-fishing, local environment and biodiversity

Eir’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) team, in partnership with Inland Fisheries Ireland, are leading a new programme with James’s Street CBS Tr(...)

Máire Ní Thuathail: July 29th, 1957-September 19th, 2016. Above, with her dog, Stocaí
Máire Ní Thuathail: ‘Ros na Rún’ producer with creative vision
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Máire Ní Thuathail, who was executive producer of the long-running TG4 flagship drama, Ros na Rún, and managing director of the radio and television p(...)

A picture taken on Friday shows forensics officers and policemen examining a truck on the Promenade des Anglais seafront in the French Riviera town of Nice, after it drove into a crowd watching a fireworks display killing more than 80 people. Photograph: AFP
‘I saw the bodies...I saw a man get hit,’ says Irishman in Nice

Twenty-two year-old Eoin Staunton from Tourmakeady near Westport came to work at Ma Nolan’s pub, a block from the Promenade des Anglais, on Friday mor(...)

Myles Joyce, who was hanged in Galway in 1882 and is widely accepted as being innocent of the Maamtrasna murders. Photograph courtesy of the National Library of Ireland
A wrongful hanging in Connemara, 1882

The handwriting was impeccable but written in a language the correspondent did not speak. “Sir, I beg to state through the columns of your influent(...)

Stuart McGrane, two-day winner of Wicklow Anglers weekend on Mask
Angling Notes: Mighty craic at Wicklow anglers’ annual outing on Lough Mask

A group from Wicklow Anglers’ Association held their annual outing to Lough Mask last weekend, staying at Máire Lukes in Tourmakeady. It was my first(...)

Rory O’Flaherty (right), chairman Lough Lein Anglers presenting the Charity Cup to Noel Duane, winner of fly-fishing competition in Killarney
Angling Notes: Kerry competition nets funds for charity as 90 anglers take part

Stationed on the bridge overlooking the canal stretch alongside Ross Castle on Lough Lein in Killarney, Timothy O’Sullivan, “Timo” to his friends, be(...)

Armagh angler David Connor with one of his Sheelin catches
Angling Notes: Anglers invited to contribute to review on national policy on bass, pike and trout

A review of the national policy to examine all relevant data for the management of bass, pike and trout is underway by Inland Fisheries Ireland (IFI)(...)

Alan Hough, centre, accepting the Ignatius Cup from John Burke, left, and Tómas Burke
Angling Notes: Fly fishing competition on Lough Mask a big success

More than 100 anglers were glued to Nuacht on TG4 in Burke’s of Clonbur, Co Galway, to watch playback of the first day of the Burke’s fly fishing com(...)