Why does Ireland, as an island nation and with its maritime tradition including the long history of the fishing industry, have a traditional fish dish at Christmastime, as other nations do? Historian Antoin O’Callaghan raises that question, appropriately, in the December edition of my Podcast and, he suggests considering the Feast of the Seven Fishes, which he identifies.
But would Ireland have enough fish. The country’s processors are concerned about that, as the Chif Executive of their representative organisation, the Irish Fish Producers and Exporters Association, Brendan Byrne, says on the programme.
