Given the hype about how well urban areas are doing, you might wonder business survival in a rural area. You might argue that you’ve got no footfall, employment prospects are poorer, broadband is slow – and … In the US, an interest in shopping local and the lower costs of living and doing business are cited as reasons to be […]
When Joseph Kidd and Ann Poole left North Wexford for Ontario, Canada, in 1824 with their children, they cannot have foreseen that, in 2017, four descendants would arrive back in Gorey seeking to walk in their footsteps. And, yet, in June, Corinne Simser-Wagg (Goderich, Ontario), Nancy Robinson (Montreal), and Jane Thompson (Toronto) were joined by Californian Heidi Cavagnolo (Los Gatos, […]
The recent outcome of the Brexit referendum might, on first glance, show a difference between rural and urban voting. Geographically, Scotland, London, and Norther Ireland voted to stay in the EU, but outside the capital, every English region voted in the majority to leave. According to pundits, the divide was more along prosperity and education lines – the better off […]
Deirdre O’Flynn
SpellCheck.ie
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Gorey, Co Wexford
& Carnew, Co Wicklow