Alice Taylor warns minister ‘hands off rural funds’
In a letter to the Irish Examiner Ms Taylor, who wrote the popular memoir To School Through The Fields, said funds to the West Cork Development Partnership had been “drastically cut back” and Mr Hogan’s department was “aiming to completely take over” the management of funding streams available from Europe.
She said funding from Europe had until now been locally managed and had succeeded in boosting the food industry in the area and in helping with the development of the Rossmore Theatre in West Cork.
