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Piltown and Urlingford in County Kilkenny among areas represented at the Digital Town Awards

Edwina Grace by Edwina Grace
13/05/2022
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“Go for it, do it, it’s worth it” says one South Kilkenny resident who’s first to benefit from Ireland’s first community built Fibre-To-The-Premises network

Repro Free No Charge for Repro 7-3-2022Piltown-Fiddown is Ireland’s first community to build its own Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network, giving householders and business owners access to at least 150MB speeds and a future-proofed high-speed broadband service they own, run and can afford. Pictured at the Community Centre in Piltown were from left Declan Rice, CEO, Kilkenny LEADER Partnership; Project Manager, Jim O’Brien and Board Member, Paul Walsh.Picture Dylan Vaughan.

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Two local areas will be represented at next month’s Digital Town Awards

Both have been recognised for their use of digital technologies and innovation to enhance their local communities.

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The Piltown Project is nominated in two categories – Digital Business and Digital Changemaker.

Brian Doyle is the Chairperson of the group there which built its own high-speed broadband network.  (More on that here).

His conversation with our Sue Nunn on The Way It Is can be heard here:

While Fiona Joyce is with the Urlingford team which set up a self-service laptop loan scheme delivered through the local library.

Hear what she had to say here:

James Hayes in Urlingford also told of the lack of broadband in his area:

 

 

 

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