Yahoo! sets! up! in! Ireland!

There'll be no office space left in Dublin at the rate the leading lights of the dot-com world are setting up in Ireland - Yahoo! has just joined its buddies Google and Amazon to become the latest to establish a European HQ on these shores.

No date's been set for start-up yet but, aside from the not-unwelcome 400 jobs promised over the next five years, it's hardly going to make a difference to the average websurfer. Unlike, say, if Amazon had set up a warehouse here when it created a European systems HQ - then we could have cheap books and no shipping charges.