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"In the past we have been wholly neglected" - Rural Ireland being left behind

Former Kerry footballer Pat Spillane says ‘almost 40% of the population live in rural Ireland, but its future never tops the political agenda’...

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16.44 20 Jan 2022


"In the past we have been wholly neglected" - Rural Ireland being left behind


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Former Kerry footballer Pat Spillane says ‘almost 40% of the population live in rural Ireland, but its future never tops the political agenda’.

Kieran was joined by Seamus Boland, CEO of Irish Rural Link, Grainne O’Keeffe, CEO of Ludgate and Hannah Quinn Mulligan, journalist, farmer, and Chair of Women in Agriculture Stakeholders Group to discuss...

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