CAP / Schemes
CAP funding brought broadband to rural Sweden
Broadband has been supplied to the rural area of north-west Sweden by voluntary groups. The project was partly funded by...
CAP / Schemes
Broadband has been supplied to the rural area of north-west Sweden by voluntary groups. The project was partly funded by...
Agri-Business
Small and medium-sized farmers can not be left behind in an agri-tech revolution, warned the European Commissioner for Agriculture and...
Rural Life
Some €50m is to be invested in collaborative approaches for job creation in rural Ireland, the Government announced today in it’s...
Rural Life
Last week it was announced that the Government is to allocate €10m to regenerate rural Ireland, with the Minister for...
Rural Life
Aspects of life that frustrate rural dwellers are slower broadband (63%) and a lack of job opportunities (45%), according to research...
Rural Life
It is estimated that 11% of households in the west of Ireland do not have internet access, figures from the...
Rural Life
The IFA’s Bert Stewart and ICSA’s Malcolm Thompson are two of the speakers that will be speaking at the upcoming...
Agri Politics
Northern Ireland’s £623m Rural Development Programme (RDP) 2014-2020 has been approved by the European Commission. This Rural Development Plan approval...
Rural Life
IFA President Eddie Downey has called on the Government to introduce a charter for rural Ireland to drive economic recovery across...
N.Ireland
Some £1m has been allocated to rural communities in Northern Ireland to help tackle rural poverty and social isolation, the...
Agri-Business
Some 85% of the population is to have high-speed broadband access in 2018 with 100% connected by 2020, the Minister for Communications...
Agri-Business
A fund of €130,000 has been made available to help fund the development and training of a business programme aimed...
Rural Life
Some 300,000 rural homes and businesses across Ireland are to be connected with high speed fibre broadband, Eircom has announced. The...
N.Ireland
All rural broadband dwellers should have access to good broadband, the North’s Agriculture Minister Michelle O’Neill has said. The Minister...
Rural Life
Cuts to the Rural Development Programme will be a blow to rural Ireland, according to Independent MEP Marian Harkin. Speaking following...
Agri Politics
Ireland’s Rural Development Programme (RDP) until 2020 has been formally approved by the European Commission. Minister Coveney today welcomed the final...
Rural Life
Some 90,000km of fibre optic cable is to bring high-speed broadband to rural Ireland under Eircom’s proposed solution to the...
Agri-Business
1. TAMS II (€395m) The farm investment element of the RDP is highly anticipated by farmers particularly young farmers. The...