Start with the researcher, then follow the funding and infrastructure evidence.

Public Irish research pay, funding, infrastructure, and source coverage are kept as separate evidence layers so PhD affordability, postdoc affordability, funding routes, and asset evidence answer distinct questions.

Loaded records

Source references

What is it like to be a PhD student in Ireland?

The latest comparable GOI stipend year is 2025: EUR 22,000, with annualized Dublin rent alone at 118% of that stipend.

The living-wage comparison leaves a EUR 9,231 annual gap before tuition, visa, family, tax-status, or discipline-specific costs.

Open PhD affordability

What is it like to be a postdoc in Ireland?

A loaded 2025 PD1 entry postdoc has a EUR 346,986 Dublin home-purchase gap, equal to 12.8 gross salary-years.

The European rent and essentials view ranks Dublin #15 of 25 loaded cities after rent and non-rent essentials, using gross salary rather than net pay.

Open Postdoc affordability

Where does third-level research funding come from and how does it reach researchers?

Funding evidence is available in ResearchGraph once the public dataset snapshot has loaded.

National totals, delivery bodies, award records, institution grants, and infrastructure records are different evidence layers. They explain the path of money and should not be added together.

Open Funding route

What is the current state of the evidence and where is the infrastructure?

0 loaded records are backed by 0 source references across the public evidence suite.

Confidence, source coverage, keyword-derived matches, and unavailable fields remain visible so readers can tell strong evidence from discovery signals.

Open Infrastructure evidence

How to read the suite

Start with affordability because that is the immediate human constraint for researchers.

Move to funding and infrastructure only after the reader knows which question they are trying to answer.

End each path by checking evidence coverage, confidence, source limitations, and whether a record is direct evidence or a weaker discovery signal.

Layer policy

Do not add layers

National totals, delivery bodies, award records, institution grants, and infrastructure evidence answer different accounting questions.

Show uncertainty

Confidence, source coverage, and evidence limitations stay beside the chart or table they qualify.

Keep filters secondary

Search and filters refine the answer, but the reader sees the primary evidence before advanced controls.

Use source-backed claims

Unavailable fields remain unavailable; public pages do not infer availability, salary coverage, or current equipment access.