Rural development stands at a crossroads in Ireland.

Since the initiation of the pilot LEADER programme in 1992, Ireland has led the way in developing the ethos and broadbased approach that made the programme and its successors the success they have become. Let no one doubt that success. The EU has recognised it by mainstreaming the ‘LEADERapproach’ as a basic tool of its overall rural development policy for the 7-year period from 2007. Click here to read Newsletter

Over 88% of BNS Grants Allocated.

Over 88% of BNS Rural Development’s grant aid budget of €3.6 million has now been committed to 235 individual projects throughout the company’s region of rural Kilkenny and southeast Tipperary. The E.U.’s LEADER+ and the National Rural Development Programmes (NRDP) ends at the close of 2006. Click here to read Newsletter

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