Research Ireland

@researchireland.ie

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Ireland’s new competitive research and innovation funding agency

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Image shows groups sitting at round tables at Consensus Conference
Young adult female scientist wearing safety glasses and blue gloves, carefully pipetting liquid into a petri dish during an experiment
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Susan Kelleher and Laura Cahill
Prof Denise Fitzgerald
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Dr Siobhan Roche, Director, Research for the Economy, Research Ireland; Dr Allison Waters, Head of Research & Innovation, Irish Blood Transfusion Service (IBTS); Dr Andrew Godfrey, Medical & Scientific Director, IBTS; and Prof. James O’Donnell, Professor of Vascular Biology at RCSI School of Pharmacy and Biomolecular Sciences and Project Lead.
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Dr Luiza Wasiewska
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Research Ireland Pathway awardee, Andrey Bezrukov, University of Limerick.
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Ruth Freeman
Kasandra O'Connell examining archival materials in the Irish Film Archive. Image credit: Al Higgins.
Research Ireland Programme Plan 2026 cover
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Woman using a microscope.
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Dr Ruth Freeman
Open Now: Ulysses 2027
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Dr Alison Connolly
Finn Hanrahan
Dr. Tian Carey (Trinity College Dublin), Dr Jennifer Lynch (University College Dublin), Dr Ian Woods (RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences).
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Left-right: Dr Ruth Freeman, Director, Research for Society at Research Ireland, James Lawless TD, Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, Ann Butler, Project Lead, Energize / Junior Achievement Ire Ltd (Discover-funded project), Hildegarde Naughton, Minister for Education and Youth, and Dr Diarmuid O’Brien, CEO Research Ireland (Photo: Jason Clarke).
Call for tender: Opportunity for researchers to join a significant initiative examining the history and legacy of Ireland’s Department of Justice
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Cover of the Research Ireland Strategy, showing an aerial photograph of Ireland, with the Research Ireland and Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science logos; and the text: Curiosity, Capability, Competitiveness - Charting Ireland's Research and Innovation Future
Diarmuid O’Brien, CEO of Research Ireland; Dr Paddy Austin, Assistant Director for ERDF, Northern and Western Regional Assembly; Professor Garry Duffy, Director of ARC Hub for HealthTech, University of Galway and RCSI; Professor David Burn, President of University of Galway; Elena Panteva, Directorate General for Regional & Urban Policy, European Commission.
L-R: Stuart Brennan, Liam Nolan, John Memery, Bobby Gleeson, Dr Ruth Freeman, James Burchill & Paul Cleary
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H.E. Céline Place, the French Ambassador to Ireland, with Research Ireland CEO, Dr Diarmuid O'Brien
StopFloods lead Indiana Olbert and co-lead Tom McDermott.
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