Information & Communications Technologies

Ireland has secured a reputation as one of the leading global locations for Foreign Direct Investment in ICT

One of Ireland’s best attributes for attracting FDI is the opportunity for ICT investors to locate their operations in a large variety of locations right across the country.

Ireland’s main cities are Dublin, Cork, Galway, Limerick and Waterford and these cities have seen clusters of specific sectors grow up around them. However, IDA defines locations for investment in Ireland by region and as such there are nine regions covering all of the Republic of Ireland.

Many of these nine regions have benefitted from ICT FDI as they all have the ability to meet the requirements of overseas investors. These requirements include access to a skilled and flexible workforce, the right management, financial and corporate skills, a highly developed industrial infrastructure and increasingly opportunities to partner with high-level development resources such as third level education and similar advance enterprises.

As such overseas investors, regardless of sector or activity, will always have a range of locations from which to choose having pin-pointed Ireland as their location of choice.