County Offaly was allocated four vouchers to the value of €15,000 by the WiFi4EU project for Tullamore, Birr and Edenderry Municipal District areas and a fourth voucher for county locations that have not been connected through each of the Municipal District vouchers.
This €15,000 per voucher, was matched by the same amount of funding, from the Department of Rural and Community Development Regional Development and Innovation (RDI). Communities and the council are covering the ongoing operational costs e.g. the connection costs per month.
On 11 October 2020, the Tullamore WiFi4EU voucher was launched for locations on the town streetscape and some community venues in the Municipal District. We were featured in the EU Commission newsletter as first in Ireland to start the voucher claim process, see list below. Between then and the end of Q1 2021, we completed the rest of the current WiFi project locations. Nearly 100 public WiFi4EU access points are available across the county.
Tourist locations with public WiFi include the Edenderry Harbour area, Tullamore boardwalk, Pullogh jetty and Shannon Harbour all on the Grand Canal on which the towpath is being upgraded as part of the national Grand Canal Greenway amenity route. We also service three locations in Kinnitty (public WiFi in Giltraps, the Slieve Bloom Bar and the Community Centre); the Tourist Office in Clonmacnoise and some of the Birr Castle cafe outdoor seating area, Killeens and Lukers in Shannonbridge and Banagher Harbour.
See our interview last year late 2020 in the EU Commission newsletter here.
Full list of locations that Offaly County Council provide Free Public WiFi
Note: This list includes Libraries, WiFi4EU, Tourism WiFi Initiative, Digital Hubs, BCP’s and Council Buildings
| AP Name | Indoor | Outdoor |
| Ballinamere – Ballykilmurray Community Centre | * | * |
| Ballycommon – Ballycommon Telework and Training Centre | * | * |
| Ballycumber – The Barracks | * | * |
| Banagher – Crank House | * | * |
| Banagher – Library | * | * |
| Banagher – Marina Outdoor | * | * |
| Birr – Birr Castle | * | * |
| Birr – Johns Place | * | * |
| Birr – Library | * | * |
| Birr – Pharmacy (Emmet Sq) | * | * |
| Birr – Pharmacy (O’Connell St) | * | * |
| Birr – STREAM Creative Suite | * | * |
| Birr MD | * | * |
| Boora – Lough Boora Discovery Park | * | * |
| Bracknagh – St. Broughan’s Community Centre | * | * |
| Clara – Baggots Centra | * | * |
| Clara – Community and Family Resource Centre | * | * |
| Clara – Library | * | * |
| Clara – McManus Pharmacy | * | * |
| Clareen – Clareen Community Hall | * | * |
| Cloghan – Community Centre (Hall) | * | * |
| Cloneyhurk – St. Brigid’s Community Centre | * | * |
| Clonmacnoise – Clonmacnoise Monastic site | * | * |
| Coolderry – Coolderry Community Hall | * | * |
| Croghan – Croghan Community Hall | * | * |
| Daingean – Library | * | * |
| Daingean – Square | * | * |
| Dunkerrin – Dunkerrin Community Centre | * | * |
| Durrow – St.Colmcille’s Community Centre | * | * |
| Edenderry – Blundell Park | * | * |
| Edenderry – Creative 65 | * | * |
| Edenderry – eHive | * | * |
| Edenderry – EMD Town Hall (Library Side) | * | * |
| Edenderry – EMD Town Hall (Tesco Side) | * | * |
| Edenderry – Harbour | * | * |
| Edenderry – Library | * | * |
| Edenderry – Patrick Larkin | * | * |
| Edenderry – Canal Line near Canoe Club | * | * |
| Edenderry MD | * | * |
| Ferbane – Ferbane Food Campus | * | * |
| Ferbane – Ferbane Library | * | * |
| High Street (Belmont) – High Street Hall | * | * |
| Kilclonfert – Kilclonfert Community Hall | * | * |
| Kilcormac – St Josephs Community Centre | * | * |
| Killavilla – Killavilla Community Hall | * | * |
| Kinnitty – Community Centre | * | * |
| Kinnitty – Giltraps Pub | * | * |
| Kinnitty – Slieve Bloom Bar | * | * |
| Moneygall – Community Centre | * | * |
| Mountbolus – Killoughey Community Centre | * | * |
| Mucklagh – Community Centre | * | * |
| Pullough – Community Centre | * | * |
| Pullough – The Pull Inn | * | * |
| Rahan – Community Centre | * | * |
| Rath – Community Centre | * | * |
| Rhode – Community Centre | * | * |
| Shannon Harbour – McIntyre | * | * |
| Shannonbridge – Killeens | * | * |
| Shannonbridge – Lukers | * | * |
| Tullamore – Áras an Chontae | * | * |
| Tullamore – Arts Centre | * | * |
| Tullamore – Cloonans | * | * |
| Tullamore – Doyles Gala | * | * |
| Tullamore – Jigsaw | * | * |
| Tullamore – Library | * | * |
| Tullamore – Lloyd Town Park | * | * |
| Tullamore – Mens Shed | * | * |
| Tullamore – Supermacs (Church St) | * | * |
| Tullamore – Supermacs (William St) | * | * |
| Tullamore – Teach Cheoil | * | * |
| Tullamore – The Junction | * | * |
| Tullamore – Tourist Office (High St) | * | * |
| Tullamore – Tourist Office (O’Connor Sq) | * | * |
| Tullamore – Tullamore Bury Quay | * | * |
| Tullamore – Tullamore MD | * | * |