Minister Ring and the Government need to redouble their efforts to support communities in rural Ireland as a report today on vacant shops and office premises in every county shows…
The whole system of how Leader funding is accessed must be reviewed in light of the revelation that so far a sum of only 118,000 Euro has been allocated out…
It is nearly two months since we met with Bank Of Ireland in relation to services being reduced or withdrawn from certain branches in rural areas with many of the…
While the Action Plan For Rural Ireland contains many laudable aspirations, claims this week that 95% of the actions promised in the plan have been carried out or are in…
The meat factories have been dropping their prices in recent weeks and now the bad weather will give them another reason to drop prices even further and that’s totally unacceptable….
With winter on the way there are fears among members of the local community affected in the past by flooding that nothing is being done to prevent it happening again….
The amount of red tape and form filling that is associated with registering and taxing a van is totally unwarranted and is causing anger in many sectors including farming and…
Minister Simon Harris must act immediately and instruct the HSE to recruit at least 150 new dentists to the public system so that children can have proper and timely dental…
The figures for work related deaths in 2016 which show that of the 46 fatalities across all sectors, almost half- – 21 were farm related deaths shows once again that…
Having being in existence for 40 years a review is needed of the way An Bord Pleanala is operating given the slow pace of it’s decision making, especially in recent…