Two Ireland South East tech companies are using their innovation capacity to help manage the Covid-19 crisis. Nearform are working with the HSE to develop a mobile tracing app for the disease. While Taoglas are using their IoT technology expertise to help manage crowd sizes and social distancing protocols. Read more
The team at SEAM’s 3DWIT Centre have lent their expertise to the national fight against the Covid-19 outbreak by printing much required face shields for frontline workers. Read more
Given that most people are working from home for the next few weeks, we thought it would be a good time to get some advice from our remote working expert Margaret Ahearne. Margaret lives in Kilkenny, is the Senior Product Manager with Hubspot, and has spent most of her career remote working. She has kindly given us her top 5 tips to survive our new working environment:
The latest fDi magazine rankings endorse Ireland South East’s position as a European region of the future.
The opening of the New Ross N25 Bypass is a real step change in the economic journey of the South East.
Arvum has just struck a deal in New York that will double its €32m turnover and earn it $135m (€122m) over the next five years. Read more
Over 980 people attended one of Ireland’s biggest job fairs of 2019 which was held in Kilkenny over the Christmas holidays.
A Science channel documentary series, “Building Giants”, has aired an episode that describes the construction of the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Bridge that crosses the River Barrow at New Ross. Read more
The project, titled ‘Digital DNA Storage Infrastructure of the Future’, involves an infrastructure that supports encoding of digital transformation in DNA, which will lead to a new form of data storage for the future.
Glanbia has announced that it will build a new €140 million cheesemaking facility in Co. Kilkenny creating 180 jobs in the process.