Now that Science Foundation Ireland has become Research Ireland, I came across their updated open data at https://data.gov.ie/ on all the awards they made – over 7200 of them from 2001 to 2025. There are insights here into the evolution of third level research in Ireland and activity around supporting large scale multi-party collaborations and individual commercialisation of promising findings. Latterly, an increasing focus on solving grand challenges is apparent. Too much to distill yet so a quick word cloud of the project titles for now below.