Irish Examiner View: Shift in property market is a chance to revive wilting rural communities

Pandemic sees demand for rural homes with broadband surge 

It would be a pity, a crime almost if this accelerating shift in the property market was not managed in a way that might deliver a win-win outcome for urban and rural communities.

When an idea's time arrives the circumstances of the day are almost immaterial. If the idea is good enough, if it inspires enough brave, can-do people it will make room for itself in our world.

Britain proved in 1948, when, beggared and all but broken by the Second World War, it launched their National Health Service. That was a statement of intent that recognised social obligation and possibility. Today, stretched and battered the NHS remains a jewel in Britain's firmament albeit in need of resuscitation. It will, however, survive because the logic behind it, the social justice demands giving it a pulse, are irrefutable.