Legacy of National spacial strategy in spotlight

New research has found as much as 82% of jobs created here by overseas firms in the past six years have been centred around Dublin, Cork and Galway.

The findings — by professors Proinnsias Breathnach and Chris van Egeraat of NUI Maynooth — will be formally presented next week at a conference examining the first 10 years of the National Spatial Strategy, hosted by the ESRI.

Peter Mehlbye — director of the co-ordination unit for the European Observation Network on Territorial Development and Cohesion — will deliver the keynote address.