Risks from automation: Rural areas need vision to survive

If Percy French were alive today he would probably be tempted to add a verse or two to his famous song, ‘Come Back Paddy Reilly To Ballyjamesduff’.

The town in Co Cavan made famous by Ireland’s most notable troubador of the late 19th and early 20th centuries has been placed in the top three towns where jobs are most at risk of automation. The others are Edgeworthstown, Co Longford, and Cahir, Co Tipperary.