The report shows that Ireland’s 27 community cafés employ 50 staff and are supported by nearly 400 volunteers across ten counties. They combine a café, shop, and meeting place under one roof, ...

Rural communities and businesses across Northern Ireland are set to receive a significant boost, following the allocation of ...

ALL weekly social welfare rates must increase by €25 and be benchmarked to average earnings in the next Budget, an ...

DAERA Minister Andrew Muir has welcomed the award of £5.28million in grants to over 2,500 rural community organisations and ...

Department of Health report on GPs identifies East Mayo as facing triple threat of high service demand, high retirement risk, ...

Grant is the most popular form of housing in nine counties and there are calls for it to be extended to multiple properties ...

McGuinness reaffirmed Sinn Féin’s call for a rural housing strategy that meets the real needs of communities, including serviced sites, affordable purchase schemes, and investment in social housing in ...

You cannot use time spent in self-employment (or on Community Employment, Tús, JobBridge or the Rural Social Scheme) to meet this condition. Your job is likely to last at least 3 months ...

Social welfare recipients have been urged to take note of the changes set to come into effect this week, which include increases in payments and changes to income thresholds.

South West Mayo Development Co (SWMDC) celebrated 20 years of the Rural Social Scheme (RSS) with a function in Balla Community Centre on Friday week last. The RSS is a support programme for ...

Changes to the long-running Rural Social Scheme are finally on the way to extend the upper age limit for participants from 60 to 66 – without any further means test or renewal process. The changes – ...