Michael Hickey
Michael Hickey is a fisheries officer from Carrick-on-Suir, Ireland, who gained attention after being violently assaulted during a seagoing salmon protection patrol in 1993. The attack left him hospitalized for 15 days and confined to a wheelchair for a period. Hickey later became a whistleblower, alleging corruption among some of his colleagues, which contributed to a tense atmosphere between fisheries officers and local fishermen.
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Michael Hickey is a fisheries officer who was violently assaulted and later became a whistleblower.
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