WATCH: Willie Mullins snaps up €180,000 Wootton Bassett pointer theirishfield.ie - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from theirishfield.ie Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Brittas Bay becomes Brittas Stay as home buyers rethink work-life balance Properties have been sailing past their asking prices at the coastal Co Wicklow resort
Thu, May 6, 2021, 06:00
As we slowly lift the blinds and venture beyond our county boundaries from next Tuesday, we expect a mini-exodus from south Co Dublin to the mobile-home and caravan parks along the Co Wicklow coast. The sun will surely shine on people travelling to their own stationary mobile home or caravan (rentals are prohibited until June 2nd), but it appears that many people are itching for a permanent pitch at Brittas Bay.
With the commute from there to Dublin reduced to about an hour by car, the boom in the area is fuelled by the general work-pattern rethink, and if a coastal burrow on the Wild Atlantic Way is too long a journey midweek, it’s possible to see yourself working a few days in a city-centre office and decamping to a closer beach house for the rest of the week. It’s a permanent prospect f
Progress continuing on county Kildare broadband plan says company
Almost half of county not well served by broadband says National Broadband Ireland company
Reporter: );
);
Surveying works in several areas of Kildare are well underway for the implementation of the national broadband plan (NBP), according to National Broadband Ireland (NBI), the company rolling out the new high-speed fibre broadband network.
NBI said contractors have been on the ground across Ireland for eight months and over 150,000 premises nationwide have been surveyed to date. “This involves physically walking the routes and documenting images, notes and measurements of the poles, cables and underground ducts in each area. This will enable network design solutions for the provision of a fibre network to every premises in the Intervention Area – a map of over 544,000 premises nationwide identified by the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communication (DECC) - as not being served with ade