New action group to fight Bord Snip threat to rural life

Date Published: 13-Aug-2009

A NEWLY formed communityaction group is to make submissions to An Bord Snip Nua outlining their concerns and objections to a number of proposals about the Gaeltacht.

Up to 200 people attended a public meeting in Carraroe last Wednesday night to discuss the implications of the recommendations made in An Bord Snip Nua’s report.

MnÁ TÍ, representatives from various Irish language and Gaeltacht organisations as well as individuals from all over the Connemara Gaeltacht and some from Dublin and Donegal attended the meeting.

Two primary recommendations were made at the meeting, which decided to form a new community action group known as The G Force and which will be making submissions on the report.

The group is currently spreading as much information about the proposals among the Gaeltacht community and they are hoping for…