Seventy two year old fisherman Seán Murphy in Kerry on why young men are no longer fishing for a living.
Séan Murphy is a fisherman is from the Gaeltacht community of Corca Dhuibhne on the Dingle Peninsula in County Kerry. He is a member of the only crew from Corca Dhuibhne fishing from a small boat off the Kerry coast. The two other members of his crew are mere boys of 69 and 55 years of age.
Young men from the area are emigrating. They are not being encouraged by their parents to take up fishing as a means of making a living. This way of life is considered to be too hard. It is also dangerous, expensive and there is no money to be made from it.
An RTÉ News report broadcast on 15 November 1965.
