Eco Eye: Re-vitalising Ireland’s Towns:Tipperary and Clonakilty, Series 19 Episode 5

Travelling across the country in this episode of Eco Eye Duncan Stewart discovers the challenges facing our towns and learns what good quality design, strong leadership and community buy-in can do to improve the quality of life for all living and working in our towns. This episode shows how spatial planning profoundly impacts the viability of communities, and how a redesign of our rural towns and villages can breathe new life and hope back into rural Ireland. This episode examines why many towns and villages across Ireland have undergone years of decline since the last economic downturn, some are thriving. What’s their secret?