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DUBLIN

Twenty years ago, you would never have believed that Dublin Docklands – a wasteland of derelict brick factories and disused gasworks – could become home to the European HQ for one of the world’s most valuable tech brands. Today, Silicon Docks, as it has been dubbed, twinkles with glassy architecture, with the Daniel Libeskind-designed Facebook building taking centre stage. Twitter, Yahoo, LinkedIn and Airbnb have moved in, too, and the Irish capital’s status as a global tech hub has been cemented.

Silicon Docks is considered not only a pivotal part

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