We catch up with Eoin Costello to learn more about what has been happening in Dun Laoghaire

Digital growth insights from Dun Laoghaire with Eoin Costello


Eoin Costello is the Digital Champion for Small Businesses at DigitalHQ clg. He is an expert trainer in digital marketing, social media and digital productivity tools delivering programmes for DLR LEO and Accelerate. As former CEO of Startup Ireland clg he rapidly built the new organisation’s impact through digital channels (Twitter followers from 0 to 22,000 followers, LinkedIn Group 0 to 13,500 members and Facebook Page to 5,000+ Likes).

In this role he was national director of Ireland’s national startup week, the Startup Gathering. By leveraging digital the Startup Gathering saw 420 events take place in 22 counties. It was trending nationally over the 6 days with 5.4m impressions and achieved 400,000 views on YouTube.

Eoin was also programme Manager TU Dublin Hothouse for 3 years where he managed the incubation centre and Ireland’s largest entrepreneur programme, the flagship New Frontiers Programme. He was SME Innovation Advocate to the Info2Innovate national programme for Enterprise Europe Network leading delivery of the EU funded action on SME innovation and productivity in 5 cities across Ireland in 2012.

Our website – https://www.digitalhq.ie/

Our digital led strategy for the regeneration of Ireland’s towns and villages – https://www.weare.ie/a-digital-led-strategy-for-the-regeneration-of-irelands-towns-and-villages/

Our Digital Growth Hub model for activating the economic growth of localities – https://irishtechnews.ie/converting-vacant-buildings-to-digital-hubs/

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