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‘We are being told that there is a countrywide roll out happening at the minute and that it should get to Greenore within the next twelve months. While that will be very welcome, we have heard it before.’

He explains that the port company, along with other businesses in the village, have had to sign up to a wireless service.

‘It is reliable in that it doesn’t fall down often but while we were promised 7mbps and did get that in the first few months, most days it is now down to 3mbps.’

He reckons that there are approximately 300 people employed in companies in the village, most of which require broadband speeds of at least 10mbps.

‘ That’s the minimum speed we need for Greenore to be brought into the 21st century,’ he states.

‘How do you explain to someone in California that the internet is down?’ asks Breffni Martin, who runs his own business Regintel from his home in Whitestown.

He often finds himself driving through the countryside with a laptop looking for a hotspot so he can send documents by email.

‘ The broadband service is terrible where I am,’ he says. In his business, which involves managing registration for pharmaceutical companies wishing to carry out drug trials in the EU, he deals with clients in places like California and Australia, where high speed broadband is the norm.

‘One of the problems I encounter is that I often need to transfer large documents through a secure portal and if that takes too long, the server will reject the email, causing delays.’

He says that internet speeds are getting slower as the population grows and more and more people go on line.

‘We were promised a better service in 2015, 2016 and now they are talking about 2017.’