Ireland and UK still at odds over Loch Foyle dispute

A wide variety of marine life, including mussels, lives in its waters, which attracts the attention of fishermen from the north and from the republic. But after Brexit, attention was focused on it for different reasons: politicians were debating what to do with fishing quotas and who should have the right to use Lough Foyle. This is not the exclusive problem of Loch Foyle, but one of the most striking. This is because the body of water has been the subject of a territorial dispute between the United Kingdom and Ireland since the drawing of the boundary, a dispute that continues quietly to this day. Although this is a problem in itself, it creates a new one when Brexit joins it: when the UK finally leaves the European Union, what fishing rules will be set in Lough Foyle and what vessels will be able to use its waters? Padraig McLaughlynn of Sinn Féin, member of the Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and Maritime Transport and spokesman for voters living on the border with ...