Coworking Ireland

It’s with great pleasure and nostalgia that I announce the winding down of TL01, Dublin’s first co-working space. I set up TL01 last June to provide a space for like minded individuals to work together under the coworking philosophy that I discovered first hand in San Francisco.

The last nine months have been some of the most productive, inspiring months of my life. Eamon Leonard and Eoghan McCabe took on the coworking philosophy and wore it proudly. Last February, Eoghan and I decided to go into business together. We share similar ambition, goals and ideals in business and in what we do and our skills complemented that wonderfully. Last week, we announced and formally launched Contrast, the two of us partnered with Belfast coworking champion David Rice and skilled usability expert Des Traynor. Read More…

We’re delighted to see that Coworking Belfast is getting off to a tremendous jump start with 18 people already interested in taking space. David Rice explains the objectives -

“Bringing silicon valley thinking to Belfast by creating a cutting edge work space for digital and creative workers. It’s goal is solely to improve these industries and provide a creative atmosphere to allow ideas and companies to grow in an organic way.”

I think this year and next will see Coworking really take off in Ireland. Hats off to the lads in Belfast.

Over the last month, I have been working in the background to secure additional coworking locations in Dublin. The theory behind this is to make coworking more accessible and available.

I was contacted by a landlord a few weeks back who was inspired by our efforts to date. I explained the concepts and ideology behind coworking and it turned out that they were quite similar to why he set up his own business.

The second space will be located in Broombridge Business Centre in Dublin 7. The location itself is accessible by bus and train, a short commute (Only 15 mins from the M50 and 15 mins from the City centre).

Please spread the word people! Direct anyone and everyone to this page.

I popped up today and was blow away by the attention to detail that has been put into this place. The facility is huge and has been custom fitted with everything needed for your typical office.

So here is a rough outline of the deal (not fully finalised).. Please contact me if you are interested Jason@jason-roe.com or drop us a comment.

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Paul Campbell and Eoghan McCabe work out of a coworking space in Dublin city centre and have both been twittering invitations to passers-by to make use of the spare desk in TL01. Just follow them on Twitter and send a message before you arrive.

I received an e-mail today from Johnny Beirne who works for Leitrim Co. Enterprise board. Johnny was keen to highlight a new hot desking facility in the Carrick on Shannon area.

To Quote improvethroughchange.com:

“An innovation centre has been set up at both Omagh Enterprise Company and Leitrim Enterprise Board offices. These centres provide businesses with access to some of the latest information & communication technologies.â€?

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The services provided include:

• State-of-the-art computer with broadband connection.
• Web-cam for video conferencing
• High Resolution Printer & Scanner.
• CD and DVD Writer.
• VoIP
• Wireless (Wi-Fi) broadband connection – Access the Internet using your own laptop.

I have been contacted by a number of people who are interested in a coworking space in Dublin. TL01 is at full capacity at the moment, so im interested to see if anyone else would like to get on board for an expanded/new space.

You can contact me via email jason@jason-roe.com or post a comment below.

Dublin co-working is now officially go.

Whatever about the buzz of getting this place off the ground, I’ve been heart broken these past few months, paying a visit every week or so to check if Eircom hadn’t already set up the broadband in this little co-working space in Dublin.

Well, I popped my head in at lunch time today and the DSL link light indicated that there was an active connection on the line.

The momentum has been snail’s pace, but we’re now set to go and hopefully I’ll be spending many a happy hour coding, jibing or perhaps just hanging out over the next nine or ten months.

All the desks in this room are taken, but if anyone’s looking for a space, there’s another room for co-working being set up down stairs, and there are bigger plans afoot. Now’s the time!

I was contacted today by Ann Marie who is a freelance translator based in Balbriggan North Co Dublin. Both Ann Marie and one of her freelance colleagues are keen to find other co-workers in North Co Dublin. They are looking to set up / find a coworking location with hotdesking in the Balbriggan / Skerries area.

If you are interested please contact me and I will put you in touch with Ann Marie. Also if you are a landlord or someone with some spare office space in this area please contact me.

To avail of a freelace translator (German/French – English) drop me an email and I can put you in touch with Ann Marie.

We are looking to get some simple business cards and flyers designed and printed (by Friday) to help promote working to a wider audience. We don’t really require anything too fancy or time consuming, just something simple and to the point.

If you are interested in helping us out, please drop me an email. I will make sure that you get the full credit that you deserve.

We are interested to find out a bit more about the potential Irish coworking community. I thought it might be a good idea if we ran another coworking survey.

Click here to Start the Coworking Survey.

To incentivise this a bit, I decided I would offer a prize of €100 euro. We will do a prize draw on the 29th June. Winners will be notified via email.

As a further incentive, I will also offer a €50 euro prize to the person who links to, and sends the most visitors to this page (over the same period).

If you are sending people to this survey please send them via this page:

http://www.coworking.ie/coworking-ireland-survey/

For the charitable people amongst us, the prize money can also be donated to the charity of your choice. If a charity donation is made (with the prize money), I will match the amount donated. Ps: The prize money is coming out of my own pocket.