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The Rural Development Policy 2021-2025 aims to attract more people to the Irish countryside. \ Donal O Leary
On Monday 29 March, the Government published
Our Rural Future, the blueprint for a post-COVID-19 recovery and development of rural Ireland over the next five years.
Something that has really come to the forefront of recent national conversation is the need for Government support in creating more and better jobs throughout rural regions. This in turn will allow individuals to have a greater range of employment opportunities while continuing to live and work in their native rural area.
Remote working – whether from home or co-working facilities – will provide greater opportunity for part time farming (for example), where the employee no longer has to commute a long distance to an urban workplace, giving them more free time in the morning and evening time.
25 Feb 2021 : News Desk CREW Chief Executive Niamh Costello Creative Enterprise West (CREW) is a brand-new collaborative initiative, which supports the creative digital enterprise sector in the West.
Key partners in the dynamic CREW initiative are the Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology (GMIT), the Western Development Commission (WDC), and the Galway Film Centre (GFC).
CREW has appointed Niamh Costello formerly of Galway Technology Centre as Chief Executive.
CREW’s focus will be on the development and scaling of creative digital entrepreneurs, job creation, incubation, and accelerator programmes, training, and outreach services along the Atlantic Economic Corridor. Plans are also underway for the development of a Centre of Excellence providing enterprise and co-working space, on the GMIT Centre for Creative Arts & Media, Cluain Mhuire campus, Galway.
Opinion: Government plans for remote working are welcome, but companies must embrace the changes
Grow Remote’s Tracy Keogh welcomes the Government plans to legislate for more remote working but says companies must move from ‘remote-friendly’ to ‘remote-first’ for it to work. By Tracy Keogh Friday 15 Jan 2021, 7:00 AM Jan 15th 2021, 7:00 AM 16,798 Views 16 Comments Tracy Keogh
AT THE MOMENT, there are 650 remote job vacancies, at the very least, here in Ireland.
That’s excluding the IDA’s recent announcement of 100 remote jobs. So why don’t more skilled job seekers in the regions and rural Ireland know about them?
Or to quote a community member of ours: “Every Gitlab job available in Dublin is available in Donegal, I just can’t u