Inside The Making Of Googletown
March 12, 2018

Inside The Making Of Googletown

If you take a stroll down Dublin's quays to the docklands you will see people coming and going from offices, workers sitting in cafés and restaurants, as well as tourists and locals visiting chic eateries. It all suggests a vibrant trade, a community working and living in and around the area. 

Award-winning, state of the art buildings populate the skyline of Dublin's harbour, home of some of the world's most successful and innovative companies, paying some of the city's top rents. It would be easy to think this was always how the historic dockland area looked.

But less than 15 years ago, the so-called 'Silicon Docks' was a wasteland. 

That was until 2003 when Google decided to take a punt on Ireland as a good place to locate its EMEA headquarters in Barrow Street just off Grand Canal Dock.  The tech giant now employs over 7,000 people from all over the…

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