Cork County Mayor welcomes LEADER programme

Cork County Mayor Cllr Seamus McGrath and Cork County Council Chief Executive Tim Lucey have welcomed commencement of the LEADER programme across the county.

Cork has been allocated just over €13.9m in the new LEADER programme round which will run until 2020 (from a total national allocation of €250m).

Cllr McGrath said: “The available budget is greatly reduced from previous LEADER programmes. Communities have been cut-off from LEADER funding over recent years, and there is a pipeline of projects ready to be assessed.”