Previous guidelines on consent for anaesthesia were issued by the Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland in 1999 and revised in 2006. The following guidelines have been produced in response to the changing ethical and legal background against which anaesthetists, and also intensivists and pain specialists, currently work, while retaining the key principles of respect for pati...

6 Peter M. Kinnevey, Anna C. Shore, Grainne I. Brennan, Derek J. Sullivan, Ralf 7 Ehricht, Stefan Monecke, David C. Coleman 8 Microbiology Research Unit, Dublin Dental University Hospital, University of Dublin, Trinity 9 College Dublin, Ireland. Department of Clinical Microbiology, School of Medicine, University 10 of Dublin, Trinity College, St. James’s Hospital, Dublin 8, Ireland, National MR...

Recent media attention has focused on the low ranking of Ireland in a major international study on literacy. In this paper we examine the dataset used in these studies to consider the reason behind the low ranking. We find significant evidence that the underlying reason for this is the low level of formal schooling of older individuals, possibly due to the lack of free secondary schooling. More...

This paper conducted an economic analysis of the viability of five solar photovoltaic installations in County Tipperary, Ireland. Economic barriers along with policy recommendations are also discussed in detail in order to incentivise solar photovoltaics installations in Ireland. Using costings, solar photovoltaic energy output data and solar radiation data it is also investigated how Irish fin...

Over the last decade, Ireland has become one of the largest exporters of computer software in the world. However, the games software development sector has received little attention from industrial development agencies, academia and financiers until recently, despite the global games software industry market being worth an estimated €16bn in 2001 and being projected to grow by over 70% by 2007 ...