Children want best hospital possible — it must be St James’s

Calls for Connolly to house the National Children’s Hospital are ill-informed. It is far from the best site that some imagine, writes Jonathan Hourihane

I am writing this in response to the article “Location of children’s hospital is not child’s play” (5/12/16) by Dr Fin Breatnach, who was writing on behalf of the Connolly for Kids Hospital Group.

I had no vested interest in which site the Cabinet would select when I was in the Dolphin group, which dispassionately evaluated all candidate sites, but I insist on now putting the views of those whose expertise and efforts presented the Government with a relatively simple choice, after reviewing all options, including Connolly.