Rural areas in ministers' Cork base first to benefit from high speed fibre rollout

Rural areas around Carrigaline in Cork are set to be the first to benefit from the long-awaited National Broadband Plan (NBP) before the end of the year. Picture: Dan Linehan

Rural areas around Carrigaline in Cork are set to be the first to benefit from the long-awaited National Broadband Plan (NBP) before the end of the year.

The town, in the constituency of Taoiseach Micheál Martin, Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Coveney, and Public Expenditure Minister Michael McGrath, is likely to see the first fibre-to-the-home connections expected around December this year, Communications Minister Eamon Ryan said.