A legal “anomaly” that led to the seizure of two small fishing boats from Northern Ireland and drew angry denunciations from pro-British politicians will be resolved, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has promised.
The Democratic Unionist Party reacted angrily at the seizure, with deputy leader Nigel Dodds on Thursday describing the incident as “outrageous . . . heavy-handed tactics”. Mr Dodds also accused the Varadkar-led Government of using it as a “bargaining chip on Brexit”, something Dublin has denied. An informal bilateral agreement had allowed fishermen from the Republic and Northern Ireland to fish inside the six-mile limit of each others’ jurisdictions, but it was struck down by the Irish Supreme Court in 2016 and the Republic has yet to approve replacement legislation.
“I think we can have that law changed and that anomaly, if you like, corrected, and we can do that in the next couple of weeks,” Mr Varadkar told LMFM Radio, saying legislation had got stuck in the Senate.
It will cost seven hundred million to resolve by Leo’s standards
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If people stopped demanding fish fucking fingers for dinner, none of this would have happened. For fuck’s sake
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