Underskrivelsen af den irske tilknytningsaftale

ESOs generaldirektør, Xavier Barcons (forrest til højre), og John Halligan T.D., Irish Minister of State for Training, Skills, Innovation, Research and Development (forrest til venstre) underskriver tilknytningsaftalen, som fører til, at Irland bliver medlem af European Southern Observatory.

Nogle af de personer, som har bidraget til processen, ses i baggrunden; fra venstre til højre i anden række: Dermot Mulligan, Assistant Secretary General, Innovation and Investment Division, Department of Business, Enterprise and Innovation, Orlaigh Quinn, Secretary General, Innovation and Investment Division, Department of Business, Enterprise and Innovation, Tom Ray, School of Cosmic Physics, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (Irish ESO Council delegate), Joseph Moore, Principal Officer, Innovation, Research and Development Policy, Department of Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Irish ESO Council delegate), ESO Director of Administration Claudia Burger, ESO Council President Willy Benz og Sarah Flood, Innovation, Research and Development Policy, Department of Business, Enterprise and Innovation.