Islands

Cape Clear Island is ready to host refugees this year. The Gaeltacht community on the southernmost inhabited point of Ireland has raised funds and established language connections in anticipation of welcoming a Syrian refugee family in the near future.

Máire Ui Mhaoláin is CEO of the islands development company - Comhar na nOileán - and lives on Inis Oírr with husband Tom and son Dara. The couple have two grown up childen - Adam who works in Spiddal and Ruth (pictured) who is currently in Australia.

INTRODUCTION The surge in remote working could boost the population on Ireland’s offshore islands and restore their viability. As indeed it could for much if...

Minister Heather Humphreys, speaking in the Dáil on May 25th, gave an update on the development of a new islands policy. While work on the policy was delayed by the pandemic, it is one of the key elements in ‘Our Rural Future’, the Government’s new rural development policy.

Remote working in the extreme: From Germany to Inishturk, Co. Mayo