a Institut für Technische Optik, Universität Stuttgart, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany b School of Electrical, Electronic and Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Sciences, Optoelectronic Research Centre, The SFI-Strategic Research Cluster in Solar Energy Conversion, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland Department of Computer Science, National Uni...

Five OXA-48-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae were detected in a tertiary referral hospital in Ireland between March and June 2011. They were found in the clinical isolates of five cases that were inpatients on general surgical wards. None of the cases had received healthcare at a facility outside of Ireland in the previous 12 months. This is the first report of OXA-48-producing K. pneumoniae in ...

Eighteen patients have been referred for lung transplantations from Northern Ireland in 1986-1990. Fourteen were accepted but only four achieved transplantation. These rates are lower than for comparable regions in the North of England. The lung donation rate from Northern Ireland during the same period was similar to that for the United Kingdom as a whole. The low referral and transplant rates...

Sarah B. M. Kraak1,2*, Dave G. Reid2, Hans D. Gerritsen2, Ciarán J. Kelly2, Mike Fitzpatrick3, Edward A. Codling4,5, and Emer Rogan1 School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland Marine Institute, Rinville, Oranmore, Co. Galway, Ireland Coastal and Marine Research Centre, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland Department of Mathematical Sciences,...

Tomas G. Neilan, Glen A. Doherty, Gang Chen, Catherine Deflandre, Hester McAllister, Ryan K. Butler, Sarah E. McClelland, Elaine Kay, Leslie R. Ballou, and Desmond J. Fitzgerald Department of Clinical Pharmacology, Institute of Biopharmaceutical Sciences, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, and Department of Surgery and Pathology, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, Ireland; Department of Veterinary M...

Microbiology Research Unit, Division of Oral Biosciences, Dublin Dental University Hospital, 7 University of Dublin, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland. Department of Clinical Microbiology, 8 School of Medicine, University of Dublin, Trinity College, St. James’s Hospital, James’s St., 9 Dublin 8, Ireland. National MRSA Reference Laboratory, St. James’s Hospital, James’s St., 10 Dublin 8, Irelan...

Physiological Ecology Group, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EA, United Kingdom (J.K., H.G.); Biobased Products, Agrotechnology and Food Science Group, Wageningen University and Research Center, 6708 PD Wageningen, The Netherlands (H.E.S.); Botany Department, School of Natural Sciences, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland (F.A., N.F., F.C., M.B.J.); T...

Today I will talk about “Macro prudential policy in Ireland.” Unfortunately, recent financial sector developments across the world have shown the serious consequences of macro prudential policy failures. Thus, there is little doubt that, in Ireland and elsewhere, much attention must and will be paid in the future to ensuring that macro prudential frameworks are effective so that we can avoid ev...

Nessa E. O’Connor*, Matthew E. S. Bracken, Tasman P. Crowe and Ian Donohue School of Biological Sciences, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast BT 9 7BL, UK; Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697, USA; School of Biology and Environmental Science, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland; School of Natural Sciences, Department of Zoology, Trinity Col...

BACKGROUND Deer are an important wildlife species in both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland having colonised most regions across the island of Ireland. In comparison to cattle and sheep which represent the main farmed ruminant species on the island, there is a lack of data concerning their exposure, as measured by the presence of antibodies, to important viral pathogens of ruminants....