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And well over 200 people turned up to show their support, including
Greystones Harbour TUES1NOV22
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Greystones Harbour TUES1NOV22
ollowing last week’s apparent stand-off in the long-running dispute 
over fishermen’s berthing at Greystones marina, a harbour protest took place this evening.
Cllr Tom Fortune and GG photographer John McGowan. You can check out the latter’s up close & personal shots from the protest here.
What the Save Greystones’ Fishing Fleet do acknowledge is that their installation of cleats along the pier so they could tie up their boats wasn’t approved, and is therefore, we’re told, now possibly the subject of legal action. The original cleats had mysterious vanished, and Gallagher issued fines when the fishermen used the pier ladders instead.
Thankfully, after much negotiations with the Gardaí, at 6.30pm, Ivan and co were allowed to drag their catch to their truck.
According to BJ Marine, it was 91 boxes, with a value of €25,000 (stating that each box of crab is worth €512 approximately and each box of whelks €150). Ivan says it was closer €8.5k, “less bait and fuel”.
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I would like to know who removed the original cleats, was permission to remove the cleats sought, of whom, by whom and if not the cleats should be restored and whoever removed them brought to account. This is an ugly dispute, it is anti-fisherman and anti-Greystones, a village that always had its small fleet of fishermen.
Good luck to the fishermen. I’m not particularly into pleasure boating OR fishing – love the sea but from dry land!! I do honestly believe that any port around the country (and beyond such as UK, Greece, Spain …) is far more charming and attractive for everybody with fishing activity going on. Greystones harbour, as it is, is charmless and soulless. I find all the yachts jammed together in their reserved area quite vulgar, exclusive and ugly. Opening up the area to the fishermen might alleviate the blandness a little. Closing the pier off with a gate is outrageous and offensive to the town – a “closed-off pier” was never envisaged. Let people who want to fish fish and people who want to walk the pier walk!