Conference aims to encourage teamwork among rural communities

Teamwork can bring rural people together to develop solutions to the issues facing their communities, say the hosts of the ‘Building Rural Community — Lessons from Sport’ conference at Mary Immaculate College, St Patrick’s Campus, Thurles, on March 29.

r Eamonn Fitzgibbon, head of the Institute for Pastoral Studies at MIC, has brought together leaders in sports and business life to discuss ideas around how to regenerate rural Ireland.

Starting with the theme of ‘taking lessons from sport’, the conversation on the night will embrace broad issues affecting rural areas and seek to reimagine ways to revitalise them.