More than €10.5 million has been approved for LEADER initiatives locally
This latest allocation is part of a €64 million national package announced by Minister Michael Ring to benefit more than 18 hundred projects around the country.
62 projects in Kilkenny will benefit to the tune of 5.8 million while another 12 applications are being processed worth around half a million between them.
One of the local initiatives will see 18 and a half thousand euro set aside to help rural Kilkenny communities with little or no access to broadband.
In Carlow 27 projects have been approved with around 4.8 million euro allocated for them and another 8 worth nearly 600 thousand are in the works.