Ireland

Agilent Technologies has sponsored a biology mass spectrometry facility at the National University of Ireland, Galway.

The fur on the Celtic Tiger is getting extremely ruffled, but despite being the first country in the eurozone to go into recession, the Republic of Ireland continued to attract significant inward investment in 2008,

The publicly funded Science Foundation Ireland is currently defining its new strategy for the 2009-2013 period and is seeking comments on its plans.

Despite being the first country in the Eurozone to go into recession, the Irish government said it would maintain funding for Science Foundation Ireland (SFI), with a commitment of Euro 179 million in the 2009 budget.