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The Minister for Rural Affairs says if so many people were not shopping online more rural retailers would be able to remain open. Fine Gael Minister Michael Ring was asked about the government’s plan for rural Ireland while on a visit to Sligo over the weekend. He hit out at…

Minister of State John Halligan says he has taken a number of short-term measures to protect the school transport scheme for rural areas. However, the Minister has failed to give any clear committment on the challenges rural communities are facing to retain services in the long-term. The Minister says he…

A Sligo/Leitrim TD is introducing a Bill to tackle what he says is discrimination against rural areas. Sinn Fein Deputy Martin Kenny is calling on Fianna Fail TDs, especially those in the North West, to support the Bill. It comes in the aftermath of the chairman of the Western Development…

A Fianna Fail councillor in the region is claiming the National Broadband Scheme is now unlikely to be in place until 2021 at the earliest. Cavan councillor John Paul Feeley was reacting to the latest announcement of a new broadband contract having been signed between the Department of Communications and…

A new government plan which aims to strike a balance between urban and rural development is to be launched at noon. The ‘Ireland 2040’ scheme is being launched today and comes amid warnings that three-quarters of new homes will soon be clustered around Dublin, unless radical action is taken. The…