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Dublin's data center moratorium was supposed to cool the market. It did the opposite for the people who run the infrastructure. EirGrid's freeze on new grid connections in the Greater Dublin Area, extended through 2028, has blocked new...
Waterford's Belview Terminal handled 2.95 million tonnes of cargo in 2024, a 5.3% increase on the previous year. The port's strategic plan projects 3.2 million tonnes by the end of 2026, driven by pharmaceutical exports and the arrival of...
Waterford's medtech sector entered 2026 with a paradox embedded in its foundation. The physical infrastructure is expanding. Boston Scientific's €50 million cleanroom expansion at its Ballybrittas campus has come online. IDA-zoned advanced...
Waterford's tourism economy generated an estimated €320 million in direct revenue in 2024, supported 8,200 jobs, and recorded 1.1 million trips on the Greenway alone. By every volume metric, the sector is performing. By the metric that...
Sligo County now employs between 2,800 and 3,100 people in ICT and business services. That figure represents 8.4% of private sector employment, up from 6.9% in 2020. On paper, the North-West is one of Ireland's regional technology success...
County Sligo entered 2026 with a contradiction that should concern every tourism operator and investor in the Northwest. Capital is flowing into wellness expansions, glamping infrastructure, and the Sligo to Bundoran Greenway at a pace...
Cork Harbour is home to the densest concentration of biologics manufacturing capacity in the European Union. Across Ringaskiddy, Little Island, and Carrigtwohill, more than 10,500 people work in pharmaceutical and medtech manufacturing...
Cork's food and dairy ingredients cluster generates over €13 billion in annual export value, making the South-West region responsible for roughly a quarter of Ireland's total food and drink exports. Capacity utilisation across the region's...
Cork's technology sector employs approximately 24,000 people and generated €4.2 billion in exports in 2023. IDA Ireland has committed to 3,500 new technology jobs in the region by the end of this year. On paper, this is a market in rude...
Dublin's data center moratorium was supposed to cool the market. It did the opposite for the people who run the infrastructure. EirGrid's freeze on new grid connections in the Greater Dublin Area, extended through 2028, has blocked new...
More than €5 billion in foreign direct investment has flowed into Ireland's life sciences sector since 2024. Eli Lilly has committed €800 million. MSD is building a €1 billion biologics facility in Swords. AbbVie maintains over 2,200 staff...
Dublin's financial services sector has added licensed entities at a rate of 35% since 2016. Yet the city's share of European investment banking fee generation sits below 3%, compared to 18% for Paris and 8% for Frankfurt. That gap between...
Dundalk entered 2026 with more than €15 million in committed hospitality capital expenditure, a retail park running above 95% occupancy, and a Greenway extension projected to push shoulder-season tourism traffic up by a fifth. By every...
Dundalk's advanced manufacturing sector absorbed €23.4 million in IDA-supported capital investment across 2023 and 2024. Most of that capital went into automation and plant expansion. The logical expectation was that robotic welding cells...
Dundalk is being marketed as Ireland's cross-border logistics solution. IDA Ireland and Enterprise Ireland have positioned the town as an all-island distribution hub, a natural waypoint on the M1 corridor between Dublin and Belfast where...
Galway is home to Ireland's densest concentration of marine research capability. The Marine Institute, the MaREI centre at University of Galway, and a cluster of deep-tech firms in subsea robotics and marine imaging together represent more...
Galway's medtech cluster generates €8.2 billion in annual exports and supports close to 20,000 jobs across more than fifty companies. Eight of the world's ten largest medical device manufacturers operate manufacturing facilities in the...
Galway City recorded €127 million in hotel construction activity through 2024. Four new hotels are due to open between late 2025 and mid-2026, adding approximately 420 bedrooms to a market that welcomed 1.8 million overseas visitors last...
Kilkenny Castle drew roughly 550,000 visitors in 2023. The Medieval Mile generates millions in annual footfall spend. Festival programming through 2026 is guaranteed by three-year Fáilte Ireland funding extensions. By every demand-side...
Kilkenny hosts the highest density of craft and design businesses per capita in Ireland. Approximately 18.2 enterprises per 10,000 residents, nearly double the national average of 9.4. The county is home to the Design & Crafts Council...
Kilkenny's brewing and artisan food sector generated an estimated €18-22 million in collective turnover through its 45-plus artisan producers in 2024, while tourism visitor expenditure on food and drink experiences approached €12 million...
Limerick's medtech manufacturing cluster exported €2.1 billion worth of medical devices in 2024. That figure represented 17% of Ireland's total medtech exports, produced by a workforce of roughly 5,000 people concentrated in cleanroom...
Shannon Airport's cargo throughput remains 12% below its 2019 peak. Passenger traffic sits 18% lower still. By every aviation metric that traditionally defines a regional logistics cluster, Limerick's supply chain economy should be...
Limerick's advanced electronics cluster entered 2026 with more capital committed to automation than at any point in the past decade. Analog Devices continues to ramp its €100 million wafer fabrication expansion at Raheen. Dell Technologies...
Sligo County now employs between 2,800 and 3,100 people in ICT and business services. That figure represents 8.4% of private sector employment, up from 6.9% in 2020. On paper, the North-West is one of Ireland's regional technology success...
County Sligo entered 2026 with a contradiction that should concern every tourism operator and investor in the Northwest. Capital is flowing into wellness expansions, glamping infrastructure, and the Sligo to Bundoran Greenway at a pace...
Sligo's food and drink manufacturers contributed to an Irish seafood export sector worth €472 million in 2023. The county's harbour fleet lands crab, lobster, and whitefish. Its artisan producers ship certified product to EU markets. Its...
Waterford's Belview Terminal handled 2.95 million tonnes of cargo in 2024, a 5.3% increase on the previous year. The port's strategic plan projects 3.2 million tonnes by the end of 2026, driven by pharmaceutical exports and the arrival of...
Waterford's medtech sector entered 2026 with a paradox embedded in its foundation. The physical infrastructure is expanding. Boston Scientific's €50 million cleanroom expansion at its Ballybrittas campus has come online. IDA-zoned advanced...
Waterford's tourism economy generated an estimated €320 million in direct revenue in 2024, supported 8,200 jobs, and recorded 1.1 million trips on the Greenway alone. By every volume metric, the sector is performing. By the metric that...
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