With special enterpreneurialism like this we are sure to survive
THROUGHOUT my life I’ve lived, or spent time in, a number of towns and villages throughout Ireland that have one thing in common. Cobh was one of them, Shillelagh another, and Ballydehob. The thing they have in common is that they’re sort of on the road to nowhere. You don’t go there unless you’re going there.
Towns like that can struggle, or they can thrive. They have to have a strong sense of identity, a community that’s used to dealing with a bit of isolation. In Ireland they typically don’t get a lot of help. The internet and broadband, sometimes ever phone reception — things we live and breathe and take for granted in urban Ireland — can take a generation to arrive in the towns nobody remembers.
