Ireland's National Drugs Strategy 2026-2030 and its first action plan, with 33 actions to 2028, set out a health-led response to drug and alcohol harms, backed by EUR 7 million in Budget 2027.
By Sreepriya Prasannan
Carlyle-backed women's health company Millicent Pharma is making a multimillion pound investment in automation and capacity at its Larne plant, creating more than 20 jobs and taking the site's workforce from 50 to 70.
By Sreepriya Prasannan
Ireland's EU Council Presidency hosts a flagship European Health Data Space conference at Croke Park, Dublin, on 13 October 2026, bringing health ministries, regulators, patients, researchers and industry together on how the EHDS is put into practice.
By Sreepriya Prasannan
Ireland's Budget 2027 allocates €29.1 billion to health, an increase of €1.76 billion, with a pilot for earlier access to rare disease medicines, a national shingles vaccination programme and more evening and weekend care.
By Sreepriya Prasannan
A new EGFSN report says Ireland will need 215,400 digital specialists by 2030 and could be short up to 7,700 a year. It lands as the Citizenship Bill 2026 would raise the residence requirement from five to eight years.
By Sreepriya Prasannan
Pharmaceutical · 13 Oct
Millicent Pharma Invests Millions in Larne, Creating 20 Jobs
Regulatory Affairs · 13 Oct
European Health Data Space: Ireland Hosts EU Health Leaders
Industry · 7 Oct
Budget 2027: €29.1bn for Health, Rare Disease Medicines Pilot
Industry · 29 Sep
Ireland Needs 46,000 More Digital Specialists by 2030, EGFSN Report Warns
Each night we collect clinical trial, medicine shortage and marketing authorisation records directly from ClinicalTrials.gov, the EU Clinical Trials Information System, BfArM and the HPRA. Each figure below is the overnight count and shows the time its register was read. Each one links to the full dataset and its source.
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Industry · 26 Sep 2026
The national children's hospital, now sanctioned at €2.24bn, shows the same project management failures as MetroLink, BusConnects, DART+ and Stuttgart 21. A fact-checked look at the figures, the organisations involved and what healthcare project managers can change.
Sreepriya Prasannan · 18 min read
24 Sep 2026 · 16 min
The WeBuild programme has now supported more than 50 women-led tech ventures across the island of Ireland. Eligibility, Cohort 4 dates, how it compares with NextWave and NDRC, and what health founders should know before the 30 October 2026 deadline.
18 Sep 2026 · 3 min
Irish specialty pharmaceutical company Xeolas Pharmaceuticals officially opens a new 158,000 square foot state-of-the-art facility in Baldoyle, Dublin. The site unifies research, development, formulation, clinical supply, and commercial manufacturing for over 25 pipeline products across 21 countries.
17 Sep 2026 · 6 min
Priya Life Science joins as an official Media Partner for Fleming Events' 9th Annual Corporate Compliance & Transparency in Life Sciences Summit, taking place November 17-18, 2026 in Zurich, Switzerland. Includes an exclusive 20% registration discount code (corporate20) for our readers.
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25 Sep 2026 · 7 min
The FDA approved Onswik (insulin efsitora alfa-gobe), Eli Lilly's once-weekly basal insulin for adults with type 2 diabetes, on 24 September 2026, six months after Novo Nordisk's Awiqli. The trials, the label warning and what it means in Ireland.
18 Jul 2026 · 21 min
A commercial-grade blueprint for the Ireland-India pharma corridor under the EU-India FTA: tariffs, HPRA-CDSCO bridges, 2030 projections, policy asks.
18 Jul 2026 · 8 min
An in-depth commercial analysis of the UK-India Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA), exploring its transformative impact on bilateral pharmaceutical manufacturing, active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) supply chains, and consumer medicine pricing.
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19 Sep 2026 · 6 min
Astellas Ireland will install a second aseptic filling line at its Kerry Technology Park facility in Tralee, doubling drug-product manufacturing capacity and adding skilled roles by 2029. The 330 million euro plant announced in 2023 is due to open in early 2027.
7 Sep 2026 · 10 min
Ireland built a life-science powerhouse by being the easiest place in Europe for global talent to land and stay. The proposed move from five to eight years for citizenship changes the terms on which the sector's skilled workforce agreed to come here. This analysis looks at what it means for engineers and scientists on Critical Skills permits, for the companies that depend on them, and what a fairer Bill would look like.
2 Sep 2026 · 14 min
Building on Sreedevi Vijayakumari's analysis of Ireland's infrastructure overruns, this article examines how digital project management practices close the operational delivery gaps behind scope creep, slipped milestones, and portfolio blind spots across public works and life sciences.
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5 Jul 2026 · 4 min
NeuroBell, a spin-out from University College UCC, has closed a $5.5 million (€4.8 million) funding round led by Elkstone to secure US regulatory clearance and commercialize its AI-powered neonatal seizure detection device, Luna.
5 Jul 2026 · 4 min
Build, a startup co-founded by James Stirrat-Ellis and Ben McClusky, has secured $8.5 million in seed funding led by Index Ventures to expand Dougie, its AI platform for real estate infrastructure workflows.
29 Jun 2026 · 6 min
Artificial intelligence has evolved from sandbox pilot projects to become the default operating system driving drug discovery, clinical trials, and sterile manufacturing.
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Long read · 15 min
Ireland is entering a 1.5 to 2 billion euro National Electronic Health Record programme with a poor record on large health IT projects. PPARS and the 2021 cyberattack were governance failures, not technology failures, and AI project tools inherit the optimism they are fed. This analysis argues that the discipline the HSE needs already exists in Irish pharma and MedTech under GAMP 5 and the FDA's Computer Software Assurance guidance.
Sreepriya Prasannan · 9 Sep 2026
Long read · 11 min
As the EU AI Act, updated EFPIA codes, and multi-jurisdictional enforcement reshape life sciences, the 9th Annual Corporate Compliance & Transparency in Life Sciences Conference in Zurich sets the critical 2027 benchmark for Irish biopharma leaders.
Sreepriya Prasannan · 3 Sep 2026
Long read · 6 min
A comprehensive guide to the architecture, databases, and clinical utility of the real-time data trackers on Priya Life Science, covering trial registries, HPRA authorizations, and supply chain monitors.
Sreepriya Prasannan · 31 Aug 2026An ATS-ready life science CV: 13 templates, a live readiness score, AI tailoring against any job advert, PDF or Word export.
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Sreepriya Prasannan is the founder and editor of Priya Life Science, covering Ireland's pharmaceutical and life science industries. Holding an MSc Digital Transformation of Life Sciences (Innopharma Education / Griffith College); MSc & BSc Botany, she bridges the gap between complex regulatory compliance and cutting-edge software solutions.
Her work in digital health was nationally recognised when she was selected as a Top 14 finalist in the HSE Spark Ignite 2026 Innovation Programme. Driven by a passion for open-source science and industry transparency, she founded Priya Life Science as a collaborative knowledge platform for researchers, QA leads, clinical operations directors and students across Ireland and Europe.
Deep experience in quality assurance, regulatory compliance, data integrity and aseptic processing, alongside academic grounding in botany and life sciences: the lab bench and the audit trail.
