After all the aggro, accusations and delays, it's finally weeks away. The National Broadband Plan will actually begin connecting homes in the coming weeks. Some 7,900 rural homes in parts of Cork, Galway and Cavan will be done by the end of December, followed by 115,000 other rural homes across the country in 2021. But talking to executives there, and listening to some of the public utterances of McCourt, there's definitely a decent chance that this will happen. Whether this applies to McCourt or not, it appears that something is pushing his NBI team to try and get the NBP done faster than its contracted seven years.

Source: Irish Independent October 11, 2020 01:30 UTC