Disgruntled Nation

With a fishing boat.

RTÉ reports that a fishing vessel and the LÉ Emer naval vessel were “engaged in a confrontation“ off the cost of Co. Wexford earlier today. And by all accounts the fishing vessel won.
Said vessel, the Emer Jane, was boarded by navel personal who have nothing better to do then count fish and was ordered to proceed to Dunmore East to be detained on account of ‘fishing for scallops without a licence.’ What exactly is a scallop? Anyway, Emer Janes skipper refused and said that the vessel would proceed to his homeport of Kilmore Quay where the navy could arrest him if it so wished.
The skipper has even gone so far as the claim that the LÉ Emer threatened to fire on the fishing vessel which the navy ‘strongly denies’. And I fully belive them. Other then canned food or maybe a fork, I can’t imagine the vessel had anything which it could fire.
The Emer Jane has began its track back to Kilmore, its two boxes of war booty scallops proudly displayed on deck. It catches the scallops as a by-catch and while the skipper has said he didn’t know there was anything illegal about keeping them he can’t have been serious. Over 200 fishermen protested at Brian Blubbers kissing of the King of France Nicolas Sarkozy over restrictions which are seriously hampering their ability to make a living, such as forcing them to dump any by-catch overboard.
Cowed, with its nautical tail between its metaphorical legs, the LÉ Emer is just sitting there, watching them sail away off, powerless to do anything other then shout ‘We’re going to tell the Guards!’
Is that Gilbert and Sullivan or The Village People I hear in the background?.

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