# 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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# rural-ireland - Wednesday 23 November, 2016
We are a country renowned for our innovation and problem solving. Let’s fix Rural Ireland, writes David Minton.
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# rural-ireland - Monday 14 November, 2016
A Dáil bill will be debated on Wednesday
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# rural-ireland - Wednesday 9 November, 2016
A new documentary, The Only Gay in the Village, explores the reality for gay people living in Ireland’s rural areas.
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