Well tomorrow I head to Birkenhead and across the Irish sea to Belfast, then up to Enniskillen and the first pint of the black stuff.

The Irish Waterways Classic fishing festival starts next Monday and has an entry this year of 255 anglers from all across Europe.

Past years the fishing hasn't been brilliant as the festival has traditionally been the second week in May and this has as a rule with global warming and all meant that the fish have spawned and this means...