In Tipperary town, a new initiative has been launched to help create jobs and investment in an area which has been ravaged by unemployment in the past five years.
Connect Ireland has helped set up Connect Tipperary, which aims to harness the connections between local people and diaspora and create inward investment.
South East Correspondent Damien Tiernan spoke to three directors with a local haulage company and Football Association of Ireland CEO John Delaney about the scheme.
