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With the shadow of the Covid-19 pandemic and what can be achieved through remote working, the Our Rural Future plan aims to incentivize more people to stay in or move to non-urban areas.
The plan commits to providing financial support for local authorities to turn vacant properties in towns into remote working hubs.
This includes a plan for over 400 remote working facilities across the country.
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Terrace of historic shops and buildings, Skibbereen, County Cork, Ireland, Irish Republic. (Photo by: Geography Photos/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
Hopes and fears as local economies inch to reopening
Updated / Thursday, 22 Apr 2021
10:22
As vaccines are rolled out, and as we inch slowly towards reopening, what shape could the economy and employment have post-pandemic? Cian McCormack reports on people whose lives have changed because of the pandemic.
Richard Jacob is on and off the Pandemic Unemployment Payment for the past year. His Cork City business the Idaho Café closed in March. We closed first in March of last year. We opened again in July. We closed again in October. We opened again in December but closed at the end of December. We have been closed since, said Mr Jacob.