SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS
Shane Linnane, Rob Merriman and Shane Phelan of GreenEgg Technologies
THE GREEN WAY FOLLOWING
A NEW INITIATIVE, AN TSLÍ GHLAS, AIMS TO POSITION IRELAND AS A GREEN-TECH LEADER ON THE WORLD STAGE. LINDA DALY REPORTS
Tree months on from its launch, An tSlí Ghlas – Te Green Way is making headway in its goal to position Ireland as a centre for clean-tech innovation and enterprise. Tis green economic corridor, stretching from the new
Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT) site in Grangegor- man to Dublin Airport, hopes to attract international and local business to the north of Dublin. It has been formed by a powerful alliance of businesses,
academic institutions and local authorities in the capital, with Ballymun Regeneration Ltd (BRL), Dublin Airport Author- ity (DAA), Dublin City University (DCU), DIT, the two councils, Fingal and Dublin City, and North Dublin Chamber behind it. Already, Te Green Way has started to fulfil its aim to link Irish businesses with investors and to develop partnerships
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with international organisations. Moreover, it is proving that while its goal to position Ireland
as a hub for clean-tech is certainly an ambitious one it is not impossible. Tony Boyle, chair of Te Green Way and group managing
director at telecoms firm Sigma Wireless, says it is, in fact, a very viable ambition. A designated wetlab space for clean-tech companies is now
at an advanced planning stage. Space has been designated in Ballymun for the development of business centres. Te DIT Dublin Energy Lab, along with BRL, is providing training and reskilling to building-trade workers for the clean-tech industries. Te Green Start programme has been piloted, and is mentoring and training clean-tech entrepreneurs. Te Environmental Health Sciences Institute, meanwhile, is
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