Leah Fletcher, founder and CEO of Athlone's Dunbar Pharma, Ireland's first EU GMP-certified cannabinoid pharmaceutical manufacturer, is Enterprise Ireland's HPSU Founder of the Year 2026. Her path from teacher to pharma founder, the company and its plant-derived dronabinol.
By Sreepriya Prasannan
Priya Life Science has launched Airmid Éireann, a free open-data project with 19 datasets and 502,489 records on clinical trials, medicines, shortages, approvals, safety, trade and research in Ireland and Europe, refreshed weekly and open source.
By Sreepriya Prasannan
Stormont MLAs say the cost of encompass, Northern Ireland's Epic digital care record, is spiralling after its 2026/27 running cost rose from £15m to £35m. We trace the programme from business case to go-live, the cost history, the problems and the lessons auditors drew.
By Sreepriya Prasannan
Irish Medtech, Irish Medtech Skillnet and Brightbeam have launched Generative AI for Medtech: The 2027 Playbook. We assess what it offers, what is still not public, the EU and FDA rules a GenAI pilot must respect, and share our own POC evaluation log.
By Sreepriya Prasannan
Sixteen months after the European Accessibility Act took effect, we read all 27 national laws. Maximum fines range from €7,500 per breach in France to €1 million in Spain, a French court has ordered Carrefour to fix its site, and no regulator fine has yet been published.
By Sreepriya Prasannan
Industry · 16 Oct
Airmid Éireann Launches: Ireland's Open Pharma Data Project
Industry · 16 Oct
encompass Case Study: NI's Digital Health Record Costs
MedTech · 15 Oct
Irish Medtech's GenAI Roadmap: Our Evaluation and POC Log
Regulatory Affairs · 15 Oct
European Accessibility Act: How 27 EU Countries Enforce It
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.
Overnight counts from ClinicalTrials.gov, CTIS, BfArM and the HPRA. Tap a figure for its source.
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Industry · 15 Oct 2026
Northern Ireland's Department of Health and Department for the Economy launched the Academic, Health and Economic Partnership (AH&EP) at NICON 2026. We set out who is involved, what it aims to do, and what has not yet been published for life-science companies.
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7 Oct 2026 · 6 min
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.
29 Sep 2026 · 6 min
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.
26 Sep 2026 · 18 min
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.
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14 Oct 2026 · 7 min
A HSE expert group is considering whether Mounjaro (tirzepatide) should be funded for weight management, after Eli Lilly's price offer. We set out the NCPE figures, the eligibility options and what a decision would mean.
13 Oct 2026 · 7 min
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.
13 Oct 2026 · 8 min
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.
All Regulatory Affairs stories44 articles
13 Oct 2026 · 6 min
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.
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.
All Pharmaceutical stories32 articles
14 Oct 2026 · 5 min
Westmeath-based Mergon Group has completed the acquisition of Inmo Tech, a specialist injection moulder in Enniscrone, Co Sligo, whose customers are mainly in medical and healthcare. We set out what each company brings and what the deal means for the North-West.
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.
All MedTech stories18 articlesEvery dataset states what it holds and when it was last read.
Counts as of the last nightly read, not estimates.
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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.
