As announced on 26 March 2013, the Borrow Books library provides users with a new services that enables them to search the online catalogues and websites of Irish public library authorities and request books, CDs, DVDs, etc. to be delivered to their own local branch.

The seventh edition of the eHealth Week will take place on 13-15 May at the Convention Centre in Dublin under the title ‘Innovative Healthcare & Well-being’. It will present the views and ideas of the world’s health IT experts and showcase cutting-edge health ICT.

Ireland's Health Service Executive (HSE) won three prizes at the 2012 Ireland eGoverment Awards held on 25 April 2012 in Dublin.

The Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Mr Brendan Howlin T.D., published on 12 April 2012 the government’s new approach to eGovernment, entitled ‘Supporting Public Service Reform - eGovernment 2012-2015’.

The city council of Limerick, Ireland's third largest city, is making more and more use of free and open source in order to rid itself of IT vendor lock-in. It began three years ago by switching to the free and open source suite of office tools LibreOffice, replacing a proprietary office suite.

On 1 February 2012, the European Patients' Academy on Therapeutic Innovation (EUPATI) project was launched with the objective to provide information to patients on pharmaceutical R&D and to increase their capacity to be effective advocates of patient-centred clinical research strategies, approval processes, access to

On 9 February 2012, the Irish Minister of State with special responsibility for the Office of Public Works (OPW), Brian Hayes TD launched a pilot project on eInvoicing across a number of Government Departments and other public sector bodies.

On 27 January 2012, Dr James Reilly TD (*), Ireland's Minister for Health launched the country's first national electronic general practitioner (GP) referral system. It has capacity to have over 42 000 referrals into breast, lung and prostate cancer clinics carried out electronically annually.

In 2012, the European Commission plans to challenge poor health literacy levels in Europe with a new internet-based comprehensive search tool.

A company specialising in software for connected healthcare announced that a private hospital in Ireland has implemented a seamless integration platform in its key hospital departments to help reduce its IT costs.

A consortium of researchers and user organisations from across Europe is investigating the accessibility of Web 2.0 applications for disabled and older people, as announced by the relevant I2Web project responsible on 26 October 2011. The consortium will then create new tools to help developers produce applications that are more accessible to these groups.