Eclipse

Ninety-odd percent of the sun gone from a Wexford evening, and still not dark.


Ninety-odd percent of the sun gone from a Wexford evening, and still not dark.

We had fished the fly early that morning, from the shore. By the time we came to the point the tide was rising, and the point was doing what a point does on a big tide — driving water hard…

Ireland's National Nature Restoration Plan is due on 1 September 2026. This is the submission I made to it — a case for treating the recreational sea bass fishery as a coastal ecosystem rather than a stock, and a measurable restoration pathway for the habitats that hold it. Written from forty years of watching one stretch of the Irish south-east.

— after Krzysztof Kieślowski
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