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PEOPLE ARE NOW permitted to fish within 5km of their home, following a change of restrictions yesterday.
As of Tuesday 5 May, people can travel up to 5km outside their home for the purposes of exercise, and people aged over 70 can leave their homes for a 5km exercise or drive for the first time since 27 March.
The Taoiseach and Dr Tony Holohan had been asked whether people could engage in individual activities such as fishing.
Last Thursday, Leo Varadkar told the Dáil that he intends to seek advice from the National Public Health Emergency Team (NPHET) on whether individuals can be permitted to go fishing without breaking the restrictions.
This was after independent Clare TD Michael McNamara said that the start of the mayfly season on Lough Corrib and Lough Derg was beginning.
“It is a solitary activity by its nature,” he argued.
Inland Fisheries has said that anglers can now fish within their 5km radius, and give this guidance for people who intend to do so:
Inland Fisheries Ireland owned or managed State fisheries are open, with the exception of the Galway and Moy fisheries. ESB fisheries are now also open.
Information regarding the purchase of permits and salmon licences is available online at www.fishinginireland.info.
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Woohoo .. it was really getting time for me to get another rod in my hands.
@Logan Shepherd: Ya saucy pup ya.
@Logan Shepherd: Well there goes your whole he without sin casting joke!
@ThatLJD: I’m just glad they didn’t try to worm their way out of this one ..
This could be applicable to any activity where 2 people can maintain social distancing. And that’s how I’m going to interpret it.
@Louis Jacob: I told the missus we should’ve lived closer to the golf course.
@ThatLJD: Skinny dipping has been a revelation for me.
@Louis Jacob: And for anyone that sees you I’m sure ..
@Logan Shepherd: hahaha
@Louis Jacob: ha, one sure fire way to ensure people social distance from me. Then again they’ll still think I’m wearing a black sweater. The big hairy back on me. I’ve not been able to get to the landscapers to cut it! I’ll nearly need to be dipped soon.
Great news, stay safe and get the rod bent… Tight lines!
@Ciarán FitzGerald: It’s not great news….every dog and divil with a 10 quid rod will be out fishing with barbed trebles.
Not forgetting that half of them won’t know how to handle or unhook a fish if their life depended on it.
@Mill Lane: go back to bed will ya
@Mill Lane: The wicklow spider, best bait for salmon.
Better than been PERCHed at home
@Kieran Stafford: whole thing has been a news herring if you ask me.
@Louis Jacob: red herring. F@$ck this phone. I give up.
And if there is surfing within 5km?
@Colm Beck: Go for it.
@Colm Beck: wouldn’t that fall under exercise?
@Jim Buckley Barrett: he might be a bank robber.
Can’t beat a bit of fishing
It’s a start. It doesn’t make sense however to prevent people who live further than 5k from a lake to travel providing they observe social distancing going and returning. There are many people and places in areas such as the Shannon that rely on income from people visiting and collecting supplies and services – all of which can be done safely. Waiting a further month simply prevents people getting out into the fresh air and results in unnecessary losses locally. The current isolation policy is flawed and represents massive overreach. Social distancing, timely testing and contact tracing are the basic requirements to reducing the spread of this virus. Mass isolation of healthy people will reduce their immune systems and their overall fitness. Policy needs to be driven by science and not expediency.
My ‘casting’ joke. Jesus said ‘Let he who is without sin cast the first stone’. A big brick came flying through the air and belted the woman caught in adultery. ‘Oh Mother!’ said Jesus, ‘Why do you have to spoil everything?’
That should keep the foreign trawlers out.
Are we allowed to tow a boat to a slipway 5km from the house? Is this deemed as non essential travel?
@Michael Craddock: Claim it as essential, on the grounds that going out on the lake without the boat is dangerous.
@Logan Shepherd: I had to read that twice!
@Logan Shepherd: I had to read that twice!
@Michael Craddock: I had to read your comment twice as well, so now we are even :-)
@Michael Craddock: Thanks for that link Micheal. So the 18th for leisure boating. I’d still go with the boat being essential for lake fishing, although I wouldn’t want to end up putting the emergency services under unnecessary extra pressure. Ask the question of your local Gardaí is my thinking.
Great… we can switch Net fix for Netflix!
There’s a good fish shop in Sligo town.the fish are so fresh, you feel like slapping them.
Anyone know any good fishing spots in Athlone?
@Richard: Never fished it, but there must be some good spots along the Shannon. Lough Ree is good if you are near it.
@Richard: you live beside Lough Ree, if you can’t find a good fishing spot it’s time to sell the fishing gear
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