Our Rural Future

Our Rural Future

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<p>MEP Mairead McGuinness minister Heather Humphreys at the launch of the Rural Town and Village Renewal Scheme in Clones, Co Monaghan, in 2016. Over €149m has been allocated to more than 1,600 projects around the country under the scheme.</p>

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Funding set to help councils convert disused buildings into community facilities

The Town and Village Renewal Scheme is to release €13m to give rundown properties "a new lease of life and repurposed for 21st-century use".

<p>Rural and Community Development Minister Heather Humphreys: 'Many of the successful projects I am announcing today will see vacant and derelict town centre building such as old banks, Garda stations and convents transformed into community, cultural and arts spaces.' File picture: Gareth Chaney/Collins</p>

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Rural towns and villages to benefit from €18.5m development fund

Under the programme, sums from €22,500 and up to €500,000 have been earmarked for specific projects in different counties, with 'a strong focus on remote working projects'

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Slow broadband rollout a challenge for rural living plan

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Slow broadband rollout a challenge for rural living plan

New rural plan 'needs investment and faster broadband rollout'

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New rural plan 'needs investment and faster broadband rollout'

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Workers will be paid to move to rural towns in bold new plan to decentralise Ireland

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