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The local team, representing Ireland, were the winners of this year’s Mayfly Competition, hosted in Oughterard at the weekend.

Inland Fisheries Ireland will host this year’s Fisheries Awareness Week from May 12 to May 20. The purpose of the week is to raise awareness of Ireland’s magnificent fisheries resource and also to encourage participation in recreational angling by facilitating events which enable people to come along and try their hand at angling.

Western Lakes Angling School will host this year’s TAFI Connaught Youth Fly Tying competition at the Fairhill House Hotel, Clonbur on Saturday January 15, commencing at 10.30am.

The members of Kilkenny City and County Angling Club were devastated last week to find that the river bank, life buoys and picnic tables at Threecastles has been vandalised by thugs and the trout released into the river for angling purposes had been poached.

The Bilberry/Lannagh Angling Club will host the annual McConville Cup from July 9 to 11 on Biberry-Lannagh Loughs, situated between Castlebar and Westport.

A proposed new bridge from the Cathedral car park to Bowling Green would “destroy” salmon angling in Galway city as it is to be located at the spot “where 90 per cent of fishing takes place”.

The survival of the sea trout angling industry in the west of Ireland remains under threat after 20 years of debate, according to the chairman of the Western Regional Fisheries Board, Lal Faherty.

The recent angling competition at the ‘Comer Fishing Lakes was a huge success.