Rural Community Consultation

The delivery of significant infrastructure, whether its energy, water, roads, IT, faces considerable challenges, particularly to communities who may have to shoulder the inconvenience of living with huge physical structures in their area. Concerns range from the lack...

Call For A National Tidy Towns Network

As chairman of Irish Rural Link I attended, along with over 400 other delegates from all over Scotland, the inaugural Scottish Rural Parliament last November, the culmination of years of hard work by the organising committee with support from the Scottish Government....

Rural Protocol

Irish Rural Link is proposing that Rural Protocol should be first consulted before the closure of any services in rural Ireland. Such a protocol might save a great deal of negative energy and anxiety expended by rural communities in order to defend, what seems to be...

West Offaly takes a stand against Ulster Bank.

December 2014 marked a change in Irish society, the small community of Ferbane in west Offaly decided to rally together to stop the closure of their Ulster Bank branch. Over a thousand people from the locality turned out on the streets to show their commitment to...