Rural villages build their own fibre broadband network

The broadband network is community-owned and managed by Broadband for Our Community, a locally-based, not-for-profit company with a board of volunteers

Broadband 4 Our Community project manager Jim O'Brien and volunteer Paul Walsh. Picture: Conor Reidy

Two communities have built their own high-speed fibre broadband network after feeling left behind by the National Broadband Plan.

Co Kilkenny villages Piltown and Fiddown created the network that will be supplied to 750 homes and businesses in a 3.4sq km area.