Sunny Southeast

e-working Southeast Ireland

CLONMEL -- Google knows what's out there. I learned important things during a recent query.

Your search - "e-work in southeast ireland" - did not match any documents.

Funnily enough, the search returned nine sponsored links, including one in German.

I used to work on a "Southeast e-work Centres" subcommittee. I take the nonexistent Google visibility to mean there's no endorsement of the idea of "a co-ordinated network of managed facilities suitable for use by employees who choose the E-Work option." What's wrong with the zero commute option? Why not encourage SOHO operations with corporate involvement encouraged to offset the cost of broadband connectivity? That was my point while serving on the subcommittee three years ago.

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Posted by Bernie Goldbach. The documentation related to e-work in Ireland remains sequestered behind a "Passwall" inside a frameset. It won't be noticed by Google--or anyone else--that way.
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Kilkenny Summer Jobs

KILKENNY -- Several summertime jobs beckon people living in Kilkenny, Ireland.

• Woodie's DIY: Casual Sales Assistants
• Lanigan's: Bar staff
• Oasis: Sales assistant

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Second Industrial Revolution

NYT -- Brian Lavery explains why Intel chose Ireland to again expand its chip fabrication process. Ireland gave $120m in grants to Intel and the chip maker built Fab 24-2 in County Kilkdare. In doing so, Irish analysts say, Intel may inspire other technology companies to invest here as well. That lesson is taken as gospel by regional development officers.

It is being played out in Thurles, County Tipperary, where Shannon Development rowed in behind Avica Europe, the digital cinema company.

"You attract a quorum of U.S. multinationals - they tend to feed upon themselves," said Gerry Hennigan, a technology analyst with Goodbody Stockbrokers.

Even though salaries are about the same when Intel compares Ireland to the States, other costs are creeping up in the Republic. It costs more to turn on the lights, pay the insurance and to buy office supplies in Ireland. The cost of doing business in Ireland is climbing faster than the rate of inflation.

Nonetheless, big players continue to swim ashore in Ireland, showing that the country is not losing out to lower cost places to the east.

As Colm Donlon from the IDA says, "It's the end of the first industrial revolution in Ireland and the beginning of the second."

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Brian Lavery -- "New Tech Surge in Ireland, and It Feels Like '99 Again"

Cartoon Saloon Backwards Bum

KILKENNY -- A group of talented animators live in Kilkenny and work in Cartoon Saloon on a short (nine minute) film expected to air in the autumn of 2004. Called Cailin Dualach, it is helped by funding from TG4 and Bord Scannan na hEireann. The team producing the short film come from a group of mid-career animators who started their jobs in Kilkenny following third level qualification in the field.

The film tells the story of a boy born in Connemara with his head on backwards. Throughout his life, the poor fellow is the butt of many jokes but in the end his special talent for swimming helps him win everyone over.

The literal translation of Cuilin is the knotted piece of hair at the back of the head. The short film may show in Kilkenny prior to its release to farther afield.

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Trevor Spillane -- "Talk of the Toon" in the Kilkenny People, June 11, 2004.
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Home working

KILKENNY -- If you're able to reduce your commuting requirements, you're looking at working at home. For me, it's meant getting to know my kitchen table, making a den of creativity, and tweaking my communications suite.

Kitchen Table Warrior. Every piece of advice ever published on working from home is quite specific about one thing: you need a dedicated space away from the rest of your home. The difficulty is that you just can't go building extra rooms very easily. Sometimes carving out a home office isn't a player either--because of competing demands for the space or the idea that you really don't want to get trapped inside an office environment. You really should get out of your bedroom--it's just not good for the head to be near a bed when at work.

Continuity in communication. If you discover your greatest productivity is when you're occupying temporary spaces (cafes, railway cars, bus stops), you will need to stump up for mobile comminucations. I use a Nokia D211 card with my Wi-Fi laptop and also have a Nokia 9210i Communicator for less expensive HSD calls with Vodafone. I also use e-fax, which works as a consolidated messaging service.

In the shed. If space is tight at home, you could always set up a garden shed and kit out an office there. Sheddies are passionate about their garden offices. The Garden Escape makes customised sheds into offices for UK homes. An assortment of Shomera options are sprouting up around Ireland.

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