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Helping you grow from Ireland

Ireland consistently ranks as one of the best locations in the world for foreign direct investment. Whether you’re expanding internationally for the first time, or scaling up an existing site, Ireland has the ecosystem to support you.

  • Explore the sectors where Ireland excels: engineering, technology, financial services, biopharma, medtech, business services, media and green economy

  • Plug into Ireland’s hubs of industry activity with opportunities to collaborate, create partnerships and recruit talent

Reasons to invest in Ireland

Infrastructure

Infrastructure

Resilient and flexible infrastructure to support your business

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Quality of life

Quality of life

Work and life. Balanced.

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Talent

Talent

Find and nurture the people you need to make your business thrive here in Ireland

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Ireland's Economy

Ireland's Economy

An enduring location for investment

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Success Stories: Hear from leaders calling Ireland home

A proven path

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Johnson Controls
HubSpot
Diligent
Find out why WuXi Biologics chose Ireland
Qualcomm
Zendesk
In 2022, the HQ opened a new R&D facility focused on sustainable technologies

In 2022, the HQ opened a new R&D facility focused on sustainable technologies

I am proud of how Johnson Controls is leading the way in sustainable innovation and I am particularly proud of how OpenBlue solutions and services are transforming buildings to help businesses, communities and governments to reach their net zero goals.

There’s an old Irish saying that a good start is half the work; it’s proven true for HubSpot when setting up its international base.

There’s an old Irish saying that a good start is half the work; it’s proven true for HubSpot when setting up its international base.

The HubSpot team in Ireland is an incredibly talented and passionate group that thrives on providing tailored solutions to individual customer challenges, all of which adds up to making a big impact globally.

Educated workforce enables rapid ramp-up for software company

Educated workforce enables rapid ramp-up for software company

In other jurisdictions that we looked at, they literally wanted you to land and sign the deal. Whereas the IDA were very powerful in thinking about the next wave of growth beyond the first 200 people, and what type of skills we might look for then. It genuinely does feel like a partnership rather than a one-and-done, and the after-sales experience is excellent too.

Pioneering Asian company locates first overseas factory in Ireland

Pioneering Asian company locates first overseas factory in Ireland

We are committed to Ireland and will work with all local partners to build this state-of-art next generation biomanufacturing facility as a showcase to the global biotech community

Ireland is a strategic IT and engineering hub for chip giant

Ireland is a strategic IT and engineering hub for chip giant

Ireland is one of Qualcomm’s fastest growing R&D Centres, and the availability of talent and motivated people… are making meaningful contributions in terms of our technology roadmap.

Dublin site is a regional hub for product development

Dublin site is a regional hub for product development

Dublin is such a hub for big tech companies that you might think ‘if we come to Dublin, we’re going to be competing with all of them, we won't be able to get good staff’. But I think the opposite is true. Because we’ve got such a base of well recognised brands in Dublin, that actually brings qualified people from all over Europe here.

Some of the companies who have benefited from IDA Support

Mastercard
Johnson Controls
Medtronic
Novartis
Integra
WuXi
Edwards
Bank of China
Google
Boulder Media
eSentire
Almac Pharmaceuticals Group
Merck
Honeywell
Meta
Baxter
Squarespace
Metlife
Workday
Diligent
Citco
Pilz
MSD
Dell