You can use as much messages as you like. This comment reflects the general feeling among the maritime lawyers in a country where, until recently, it was a struggle to encourage companies to select Ireland as a jurisdiction for any maritime-related business. The last ten years has seen a mass of legislation enter force, however, and the level of government support for the country's maritime industries increase appreciably. Maritime law in Ireland is dominated by ship arrest, closely followed by ship finance, and claims for loss and damage.
Local knowledge has a large part to play in referred business.
There are differences in our legal system that only local experts are aware of. Irish maritime law has come of age, leaving behind a period when the 1894 Merchant Shipping Act was the industry's bible. This legislation, while still the mainstay of Ireland's maritime law, has been supplemented by a host of new acts designed to fill the gaps in the old law and to reflect the country's growing reliance on the sea as a means of facilitating international trade. But Irish maritime law has inherited some problems, too, mainly involving size. Ireland's fleet is small, so work mainly centres on arrest, or cargo claims.