Support local shops or else you may only have faceless chains in future

Recently, renowned chef, food writer and TV personality Darina Allen highlighted the need to save our small shops. Which essentially is about saving the very fibre of every local economy, on a national scale.

Muintir na Tire, along with a number of national bodies, came together earlier this year to launch their Save Rural Ireland campaign. It’s a campaign that aims to improve the existing standard of life in rural Ireland. But, crucially, it’s a campaign that ultimately spreads to all urban areas also.

The significance and the mere symbol that the small shop represents in this country cannot be overstated. And we are grateful to somebody as well-known and regarded as Darina Allen for highlighting this.