Republic of Ireland: night-time economy workshops

Didobi supports the Republic of Ireland’s night-time economy advisers with a series of workshops.

The Republic of Ireland has been undertaking a pilot initiative to support the development of a vibrant and diverse Night-Time Economy across the country. Support has been provided to nine pilot cities and towns to enhance their night-time culture including Dublin City, Cork City, Limerick City, Galway City, Kilkenny, Drogheda, Sligo, Buncrana and Longford Town. As part of this process Didobi has been supporting the advisers in approaches, models and ways to evaluate their night time economies and the impact of their work. From 27-29 May we ran workshops in Sligo, Kilkenny and Dublin.

Following this work, the Government lead, Deborah Lawlor from The Department of Culture, Communications and Sport provided the following feedback:

“Earlier this year we asked Didobi Ltd to facilitate workshops with the 9 Night-Time Advisors in Ireland, on how to evaluate and assess the Night-Time Economy pilot locations, in order to support a more strategic approach to further investment in the development of the Night-Time Economy. Matthew from Didobi immediately understood the brief and delivered three workshops for us. The workshops were well presented and structured and provided a useful platform for discussions around the evaluation of our towns and cities at night.

On a personal level I found Matthew an absolute pleasure to work with. Everything was delivered on time and carried out in a highly professional manner. I would have no problem recommending Didobi Ltd. in the future.”

As part of the work we collated everything from the workshops and delivered a feedback report on what came out of the workshops and a number of practical support measures that can be applied across all of the pilots. Easy access to data is the key recommendation and the Understanding Irish Places work is a major step in providing this to the advisers.

We would like to thank Deborah Lawlor, Edel Doran, Sophie Gallagher, Karen Reilly, Kate Howard, Craig Power, Ray O., Conor Sweeney, Fiona Collins and Mark Davies for their energy, engagement and collaboration in the workshops.