Mitchell, Jill M. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5195-0522
Rodrigues, Clare L.
Dunworth, Margo
Mc Ginley, Julie
O’Byrne, Laura
Hall, Roisin
Corcoran, Paul
Campillo, Indra San Lazaro
Mc Kenna, Peter
Higgins, John R.
McKernan, Joye
Khashan, Ali S.
Maher, Gillian M. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6722-0484
Murphy, John
Walsh, Brian H. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4665-6884
Greene, Richard A. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0247-523X
McCarthy, Fergus P.
Article History
Received: 2 September 2025
Revised: 11 November 2025
Accepted: 5 December 2025
First Online: 5 January 2026
Competing interests
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: Data access approval for the use of anonymised data in this project was granted on 05 January 2024 by the National Neonatal Steering Committee, the National Perinatal Epidemiology Centre (NPEC), the National Women and Infant Health Programme, and the National Clinical Programme for Paediatrics and Neonatology. Informed consent was not required because the study involved secondary analysis of fully anonymised data. Full ethical approval for the National Neonatal Therapeutic Hypothermia Development Project was granted by the Clinical Research and Ethics Committee (ECM 4 (g) 05/08/08).