{"id":548041,"date":"2026-07-13T20:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T20:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/548041\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T20:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T20:46:09","slug":"internationally-lauded-north-kerry-village-encourages-other-communities-to-think-big","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/548041\/","title":{"rendered":"Internationally lauded North Kerry village encourages other \u00a0communities to think big"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A village in North Kerry,\u00a0which has won international awards for their determination to grow their community, is encouraging other<\/p>\n<p>groups in the county to think big for their locality.<\/p>\n<p>Eleven years ago, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiokerry.ie\/news\/asdee\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Asdee<\/a> was downgraded from the status of village to a node development because of population decline.<\/p>\n<p>Six years ago, in response, the people of Asdee developed a five-year community plan to revive the area and went on to win Ireland&#8217;s first International Association of Facilitators (IAF) Facilitation Impact Award.<\/p>\n<p>Treasurer of <a href=\"https:\/\/asdeevillage.com\/asdee-community-development\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Asdee Community Development<\/a>, Lorraine McElligot believes that many other communities in Kerry can follow in their footsteps but are unaware of help available.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Asdee Community Development Chairperson John Kennedy believes a positive outlook was key to their success.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Funded\u00a0by the News Reporting Scheme.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A village in North Kerry,\u00a0which has won international awards for their determination to grow their community, is encouraging&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":548042,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60],"class_list":["post-548041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/548042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}