Co-working on rise in Kilkenny, attracting people from Dublin

Kilkenny's €283,177 average house price is 8.5% lower than the national average and 25% lower than Dublin’s €377,543 

Plumbing contractor Gerard Ryan and his partner, Dominika Stoppa, an award-winning photographer, who share a co-working space at Castlecomer Enterprise Centre in Kilkenny.

Kilkenny has become a city of choice for people working remotely for Dublin-based companies, with employers keen to facilitate their workers’ remote work preferences.

This trend is very evident in Kilkenny’s six rural Connected Hubs and its five established Business Centres, which are welcoming a growing number of professionals, among them many self-employed and freelance operators, who are hot desking while remote working two to three days a week and enjoying a far greater work/life balance, new data shows.