Within the social calendar of the salubrious coastal community of Dalkey in south county Dublin, the annual lobster festival is one of the busiest. More than 6,000 kilograms of lobster are consumed over the course of a crustacean feast which packs the pubs and restaurants of the south county Dublin village. However, as he chatted to the businessman Bobby Kerr’s national radio show in August 8, Padraic Hanley sounded quite subdued. A veteran restaurateur, Hanley owns a fish and steak restaurant in Dalkey called Ouzos, as well as the Fish Shack Cafe, located in nearby Sandycove, a village where Kerr…

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