{"id":646524,"date":"2026-10-06T14:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T14:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/646524\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T14:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T14:02:09","slug":"cantillon-quarter-event-told-the-offshore-energy-sector-can-support-long-term-economic-growth-across-kerry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/646524\/","title":{"rendered":"Cantillon Quarter event told the offshore energy sector can support long term economic growth across Kerry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The offshore energy sector can support long term economic growth across Kerry and beyond, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiokerry.ie\/news\/business-breakfast-series-to-target-enterprise-development-and-scale-for-regional-economic-growth-in-kerry-500198\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cantillon Quarter event<\/a> in Tralee this morning was told.<\/p>\n<p>The event heard that the sector provides one of the largest emerging opportunities for the region.<\/p>\n<p>Opening the event MTU President Professor Maggie Cusack said that offshore renewable energy is a critical issue for the South West and nationally.<\/p>\n<p>She said it is no longer if, but when, and how a transition will take place and that it can provide long term economic growth for Kerry and the region.<\/p>\n<p>The event heard that this extends beyond energy creation to job creation through supply chain opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>Speakers included Georgina Foley from Propel Ireland who said that Ireland&#8217;s greatest advantage is that we are an island country and we are competitive and innovative.<\/p>\n<p>She said that Ireland is home to 16 of the top 20 leading technology companies in the world and the same can happen for offshore energy leaders.<\/p>\n<p>Catherine Sheridan of DNV said that Richard Cantillon recognised that if you are entrepreneurial, and can get in early on an opportunity it snowballs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ie.linkedin.com\/in\/bredao\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dr Breda O&#8217;Dwyer<\/a> said the Cantillon model was public, private and academic sectors networking together to ensure the success of a region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The offshore energy sector can support long term economic growth across Kerry and beyond, a Cantillon Quarter event&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":646525,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[72,113,61,60,33994],"class_list":["post-646524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-offshore"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=646524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/646525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}