Poor urban broadband forcing Castlebar retailers to consider moving

Businesses on Main Street, Castlebar, have very poor broadband facilities.

If that continues it will result in those businesses having to leave their premises on Main Street and move to the rural part of the town where there is much greater broadband bandwidth.

That's according to Mayo Fine Gael Senator Paddy Burke.

Speaking in An Seanad, he explained: "We have some great businesses in the centre of the town.

"Vaughan Shoes, for instance, won an award for its online retail sales - it was the best in the country.

"We have Egan Jewellers, Stauntons Pharmacy and a whole host of businesses that cannot operate to full capacity due to the broadband bandwidth available.

"Something will have to be urgently done about that."