PORTERSHED @ GALWAY CITY INNOVATION DISTRICT OVERVIEW  Galway City Innovation District (‘GCID’) was founded in 2015 to develop an innovation district in downtown Galway City and accelerate the regional technology ecosystem. The primary focus of [...]

Niall Fennell is a PorterShed member who works for Skedda, the system many of us in the tech world use to book our meeting rooms. Originally from Baldoyle in Dublin, he now calls Galway’s West End his home and has enjoyed a varied career in a [...]

Aisling Kearney Burke is an entrepreneurial woman, through and through. Many people around Galway will know her as the creator and face of the very popular Paint Club, a successful start-up she founded in 2015. But she’s also the brains behind [...]

Cormac Casey is a business founder and a mountain climber – and he has his sights set on a few highs in the not-too-distant future. The connection between Cormac the entrepreneur and Cormac the mountaineer who has targeted reaching the top [...]

Recently, we’ve had quite a few four-day workweeks as the country has moved from one bank holiday to the next. Between March and the beginning of May, we had as many as four, and with another on the horizon this weekend, we’re asking if the [...]

One need look no further than Kerry-born economist Richard Cantillon to understand that Ireland has had its roots in innovation for a long time. Often overlooked for coining the term ‘entrepreneur’ – or at least radically shaping the [...]