# rural-ireland - Thursday 28 March, 2019
The CEO of Muintir na Tire said this extension of the text alert scheme is already being trialed and the intention is to roll it out nationally.
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# rural-ireland - Wednesday 27 February, 2019
A subsidy will be required to make it attractive for drivers to offer the service.
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# rural-ireland - Wednesday 30 January, 2019
Some people are waiting over 20 weeks to get a date for the driving test.
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# rural-ireland - Saturday 12 January, 2019
The majority of requests from clerical officers, who are on the lower end of the civil service pay scale.
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# rural-ireland - Tuesday 8 January, 2019
Nearly 80 projects have been approved for funding.
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# rural-ireland - Tuesday 4 December, 2018
The Taoiseach said he would not apologise for an increase in Garda checkpoints around the country.
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# rural-ireland - Monday 1 October, 2018
Government funding of €80,000 has been provided to help with rolling out the digital assist pilot scheme.
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# rural-ireland - Wednesday 19 September, 2018
A tour of the beautiful and derelict dwellings across the country.
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# rural-ireland - Wednesday 29 August, 2018
David McRedmond rejected claims that post office closures are an attack on rural Ireland.
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# rural-ireland - Tuesday 28 August, 2018
The closure affects 25 counties.
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# rural-ireland - Friday 15 June, 2018
Tinder is harder because, unless you’re Karen from Mean Girls, you can’t get with your cousin.
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# rural-ireland - Thursday 10 May, 2018
Planning delays have scuppered the plans.
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# rural-ireland - Sunday 11 March, 2018
Independent TD Michael Fitzmaurice said it isn’t possible to police rural Ireland the same way as Dublin.
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# rural-ireland - Wednesday 7 February, 2018
Fianna Fáil’s communications spokesman Timmy Dooley had suggested that the procurement process should be halted in order to ‘review’ the tender.
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A small village in Co Sligo, reminiscent of many others in Ireland, is fighting back.
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# rural-ireland - Wednesday 29 November, 2017
Midlands Simon Community’s emergency shelters are running at a deficit of €176,000 a year.
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# rural-ireland - Thursday 9 November, 2017
A new ICSA study looks at why agricultural crimes are not being reported to gardaí.
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Census figures have revealed the most affluent and deprived areas across the country.
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# rural-ireland - Monday 6 November, 2017
The government’s objective of delivering growth in rural areas still remains a challenge that remains to be overcome.
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# rural-ireland - Wednesday 27 September, 2017
Éamon Ó Cuív TD made the claim last week.
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# rural-ireland - Tuesday 26 September, 2017
A number of telecoms companies are bidding for a State contract to bring broadband to 542,000 customers.
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# rural-ireland - Sunday 17 September, 2017
Many local businesses are being forced to shut their doors and vital services are diminishing at a fast pace.
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# rural-ireland - Friday 15 September, 2017
The Living Bog Project will see the restoration of 12 raised bog special areas of conservation in seven counties.
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# rural-ireland - Tuesday 29 August, 2017
Iarnród Éireann says it has to address an annual shortfall of €100 million.
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# rural-ireland - Monday 24 July, 2017
John Moran, the former secretary general at the Department of Finance, has criticised one-off housing in rural Ireland.
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# rural-ireland - Wednesday 19 July, 2017
But living and working in Dublin comes at the price of feeling that I’m causing rural Ireland’s problems, writes Lorraine Courtney.
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# rural-ireland - Tuesday 11 July, 2017
A new bill sponsored by Minister for Transport Shane Ross would see mandatory bans implemented for all drink drivers.
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# rural-ireland - Thursday 1 June, 2017
“Why doesn’t the HSE pull the finger out and give us the means to contribute fully,” Galway GP Peter Sloane said.
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# rural-ireland - Monday 22 May, 2017
42% of people living in rural areas would conceal a mental health difficulty from family, friends or colleagues.
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# rural-ireland - Wednesday 5 April, 2017
Shane Ross rejected claims that the plan would negatively impact rural Ireland.
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# rural-ireland - Tuesday 7 March, 2017
This plays into a long debate about whether post offices are sustainable, and if not, how to make them more useful.
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# rural-ireland - Wednesday 1 March, 2017
The Transport Minister rejected all calls to intervene in the dispute.
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# rural-ireland - Monday 27 February, 2017
Publicans say this will close down pubs in rural Ireland.
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# rural-ireland - Thursday 26 January, 2017
Ministers have promised to deliver 135,000 jobs to regional areas by 2020.
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# rural-ireland - Wednesday 25 January, 2017
Bus Eireann workers have said industrial action remains on the cards.
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# rural-ireland - Monday 23 January, 2017
The government’s Action Plan on Rural Development is being launched today in Longford.
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# rural-ireland - Saturday 21 January, 2017
It is one of 500 post offices deemed to be economically unviable.
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# rural-ireland - Wednesday 21 December, 2016
The plan had been widely criticised by people living in the area.
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# rural-ireland - Tuesday 20 December, 2016
The government’s plan to speed up and deliver broadband services has been repeatedly delayed.
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# rural-ireland - Tuesday 29 November, 2016
Fianna Fáil are calling for a UK-style flood insurance scheme to be introduced here.
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