Dublin’s new €1bn TCD tech hub – beacon or elitist island?

Trinity College Dublin has a €1.1bn plan to build a new high-end innovation district’ plan that would see the cream of academic and industrial talent come together.

The government is to consider putting €150m into the 10 year plan. The resulting five-acre space near Dublin’s Silicon Docks hopes to create a new super-hub for engineering, scientific and tech research, mixing academic stars with multinationals and venture capitalists.

Dublin, the college says, should have its own equivalent to Boston’s Kendall Square or London’s Crick Institute.

But is the plan a bold new template for the next stage of Ireland’s industrial ascension? Or is it another symbol of a two-tier city where the super-successful push ordinary citizens out? Could it be both?

Adrian sits down with TCD’s chief innovation and enterprise officer, Dr Diarmuid O’Brien to find out.

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