TD David Cullinane: ‘Brexit is bad for Rural Ireland’
Sinn Féin TD David Cullinane has said that ‘Brexit presents very serious challenges for Ireland North and South” The comments come as he was addressing a large crowd at the Easter Commemoration on Sunday in Sligo Cemetery following the reading of the 1916 Proclamation and County Sligo’s Roll of Honour.…
New wifi hubs for rural Ireland
New WiFi hubs should soon be on the way to towns and villages across the EU. A report by Sinn Féin MEP Liadh Ní Riada has passed through the committee stage in Strasbourg and is paving the way for the creation of free wireless internet for rural areas as early…
Special Report: Rural Ireland faces an uphill battle to hold onto services and people
There is a fear now locally that rural Ireland is facing its biggest challenge ever as people are being forced from these areas due to a lack of opportunities. Claire Mulcahy has been taking a look at the latest announcements that are causing concern for people in the region:
Taoiseach slams MacSharry for ‘negativity’ on rural Ireland
The Taoiseach has hit back at Fianna Fail TD Marc MacSharry accusing him of coming into the Dail chamber week after week with the same negative rhetoric on rural Ireland. Enda Kenny, himself a rural TD, made the comments in response to a number of questions on the situation facing…
Minister Simon Coveney: “The Government will get it right this time”
In planning for what Ireland needs over the next 20 years, Minister Simon Coveney says the government will get it right this time. He was speaking in Sligo for the regional launch of the Ireland 2040 National Framework Plan which sets out how the country might be developed during the…
Sligo businessman: ‘Not enough money in rural plan to fund a footpath’
The head of the new ‘Revive the North West’ campaign says the money allocated under the government’s new rural programme ‘would not fund a footpath’ never mind a town or village. Sligo restauranteur Anthony Gray and the group are taking a protest to the Dail on the 8th of February…
Regional development needed to protect rural Ireland
The head of Irish Rural Link says regional development is the only way to protect rural Ireland. CEO of the organisation Seamus Boland says Dublin is now in crisis and the government has to develop natural ‘regions’ such as a tourism region in the north west. He has made the…