The Green Party's Rural Manifesto covers a range of policies which, it says, will help revitalise the country's small towns and villages - as well as its forests and wildlife.
Here are five key points from the party's proposals:
The local Hub
The Green Party plans to establish innovation hubs around the country, which could offer new types of employment for those living nearby - and even encourage others to move to a more rural setting.
The hubs would piggy-back on the National Broadband Plan to give easy access to high-speed connectivity, which could in turn allow people to develop their businesses locally.
The hubs could also facilitate those working remotely for companies that are based in other counties - or even countries.
Meanwhile the party would establish a system of regional, public banks, with a mandate to serve the communities in which they are based.
On your bike... or your bus or train
Reducing rural Ireland's reliance on the car has been mentioned by the Green Party before - but to date most of the focus has been on its plan to introduce car-sharing in small towns and villages.
In this manifesto the party details a number of other ideas - centring around a major investment programme for rural mass transport.
That includes a scaling up of the Local Link bus programme, and creating a better connection between those kinds of local services and national transport.
Perhaps more ambitiously the party will also review the country's abandoned rail lines, with a view to bringing some back on-stream, while it pledges to allocate one-fifth of the capital transport budget towards making roads safer for walkers and cyclers.
For your health
Another part of the budget that will be ear-marked under a Green government is rural disability services.
This would cover the "adequate provision" of respite care places and staff to allow more people to grow old in their own homes.
Those who do need to travel for treatment would be aided through a better transport policy, while the Greens' support of Sláintecare would also see more care shifted to primary care centres.
Elsewhere the party pledges to increase funding to rural mental health and isolation services - while also promising to extend the services available at pharmacies in order to assist local GPs.
A new, green CAP
The Green Party wants to see an overhaul of Europe's Common Agricultural Policy in order to direct more funds to farms using green practices.
That, it says, would see farmers rewarded for capturing more carbon - perhaps through the planting of trees on their land. That could also tie into a push towards encouraging greater biodiversity - while the party wants to encourage farmers to produce clean energy of their own.
Meanwhile the party wants to use State bodies like Teagasc, Bord Bia and the SEAI to encourage more organic farming - as well as the establishment of a farm efficiency rating system similar to what already exists for buildings and appliances.
Back to nature
Not all of the manifesto is about the people of rural Ireland, however, with many policy proposals dedicated instead to their surroundings.
The party wants more trees planted - 20,000 hectres per year - shifting the focus away from saleable timber and towards permanent woodlands. It would also push to rewet peatland - as well as adding (or returning) hedgerows to the land.
Not only will this help to pull in more of the country's carbon emissions, the party says, but it would also assist wildlife while creating new economic opportunities in areas like tourism.
