{"id":100283,"date":"2025-08-29T06:47:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T06:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/100283\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T06:47:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T06:47:07","slug":"high-speed-fibre-broadband-rolls-out-in-mid-cork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/100283\/","title":{"rendered":"High-speed fibre broadband rolls out in mid-Cork"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"contextmenu internal_Body1st\">More than 4,000 homes, farms, and businesses in the mid-Cork area will soon benefit from high-speed fibre broadband, as National Broadband Ireland (NBI) continues its rollout across the county.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Construction of a new broadband network is currently under way in the Carriganimmy deployment area, which covers Macroom, Kilberrihert, Slievereagh, and surrounding rural townlands.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">NBI has said that, once complete, the new network will deliver minimum speeds of 500mb per second, transforming digital connectivity for families, businesses, and farms in the region.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">John Paul O\u2019Shea, Fine Gael TD for Cork West, said that completion of the new broadband network would be a very positive development for the people of Macroom and its hinterland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">\u201cThe National Broadband Plan is the most significant investment in rural Ireland since electrification,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">\u201cReliable high-speed broadband is no longer a luxury \u2014 it is a necessity for work, education, healthcare, and farming,\u201d said Mr O\u2019Shea.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">\n            \u201cThis investment will bring real opportunities to local businesses, improve quality of life for families, and help sustain vibrant rural communities.\u201d\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">More than 82,000 premises across Co Cork are included in the State\u2019s intervention area under the Government\u2019s \u20ac314m investment in the plan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">To date, more than 50,400 homes and businesses in Cork are eligible to order or pre-order a connection, with 15,520 now live on the network.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Mr O\u2019Shea encouraged households and businesses to check their Eircode on nbi.ie to see when they would be able to connect.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">\u201cProgress is being made, and I urge people in the Macroom area to visit nbi.ie\/map and sign up for updates so they will know exactly when they can connect.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">In the meantime, broadband connection points across the county &#8211; including community centres, schools and sports clubs \u2014 continue to provide free public access to high-speed internet while fibre connections are being completed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than 4,000 homes, farms, and businesses in the mid-Cork area will soon benefit from high-speed fibre broadband,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":100284,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[49028,49029,4286,1638,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-100283","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-internet","8":"tag-broadband-plan","9":"tag-cork-business","10":"tag-broadband","11":"tag-internet","12":"tag-technology","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}