Research Ireland’s News Stories

National Challenge Fund prize winners with EU Commissioner for Democracy, Justice, the Rule of Law and Consumer Protection, Michael McGrath
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Minister James Lawless announces €8 million funding for National Challenge Fund prize-winning teams

December 2025
Professors Ted Vaughan and Martin O’Halloran
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Research Ireland welcomes European Research Council success for University of Galway professors

28 January 2026
Sharon O'Brien, Vicent Briva Iglesias, Sheila Catilho, Madline Steeds, Ben Cowan
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Research Ireland Spotlight: CHIST-ERA 2025 – Science In Your Own Language

20 January 2026
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Research Ireland welcomes €100 million expansion for Tyndall National Institute

16 January 2026
Pictured from left to right are Henry Abbott from the European Commission Representation in Ireland, Dr Siobhan Roche, Director of Research for the Economy at Research Ireland, Dr Colm O’Reardon, Secretary General of the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, Prof Vincent Kelly, Academic Director of the ARC Hub for Therapeutics, Dr Araz Raoof, Executive Director of the ARC Hub for Therapeutics, Prof Sinéad Ryan, Dean of Research at Trinity College Dublin, Dr Diarmuid O’Brien, CEO of Research Ireland, and Enda Hogan, Assistant Director at the Southern Regional Assembl
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New €31.6 million ARC Hub for Therapeutics to turn breakthrough Irish research into therapies and companies

3 December 2025
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Gender Dashboard

As part of Research Ireland’s commitment to improving the representation of Historically Underserved Communities in its portfolio of grants, this Gender Dashboard provides an analysis of gender disaggregated data across a cohort of funding programmes since 2011.
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