Driving the city’s tech quarter’s success

Ten years ago some caravans had to be coaxed from a field in Mahon to make way for a squat cube building that now houses the National Software Centre (NSC).

The NSC is a quiet success, a public private partnership that has not backfired but instead has acted as a catalyst that has led to the creation of a tech cluster on the edge of Cork City made up of Big Fish games, SolarWinds and Quest Software.

One of the directors of the NSC, Donagh Kiernan, believes the establishment of the NSC has helped attract other tech companies into the Mahon area.