Filming starts this week on Local Heroes - A Town Fights Back

12 September 2011

A Town Fights Back will follow the people of Drogheda as they work alongside Senator Feargal Quinn and an assembled team of experts to try to kick-start their local economy, take their economic future into their own hands and start the fight back for jobs.

Their efforts to save and create jobs in their community over the course of the next three months will be documented for a six-part television series beginning in November on RTÉ One Television.

While the focus will be on a number of traditional areas like entrepreneurship, tourism and business, the people of Drogheda are encouraged to come up with more creative responses to tackle this major challenge.

All of us can become Local Heroes. The people of Drogheda hope to show other towns throughout the rest of the country what is possible when a community comes together with a common purpose. Through their actions over the next three months, they want to create a template for an every-town, every-citizen response to the economic crisis that can be adopted and built on by communities across the country.

Get involved and follow Local Heroes Drogheda on Facebook.

Local Heroes - A Town Fights Back is produced by Animo Television for RTÉ Television