My grandmother fed a big family from the river back in the sunny summers when the fish gave themselves up, Irish Independent

It was Wednesday last and the width of the Liffey could be lepped by a half- decent long jumper. The sun-dried, tide-out river trickled past Heuston Station. I always thought the Liffey was a big wide river, but now you could capture every fish that travelled up and down the waterways in a small cage. The cage is a wire mesh attached to a frame and is a device used by poachers to trap trout and salmon. It’s usually planted at the point where the river flows fastest and so the unsuspecting fish are swept into the narrow opening…
Irish Independent, 08/06/13. Read the full article ‘My grandmother fed a big family from the river back in the sunny summers when the fish gave themselves up‘.