Plans for the new dedicated children’s hospital in Dublin have been refused, it has been confirmed.

A NEW national children’s hospital to be built on the site of the existing Mater Hospital in Dublin will provide “a world-class medical facility”, a public inquiry heard yesterday.

The ambitious design for Ireland’s new children’s hospital has gone on public display after being lodged with planners.

The chairman of Temple St Children's Hospital Donal Walsh has come out in support of the new Children's Hospital at the Mater site in Dublin.

THE first sod will be turned at the site of the new Children’s Hospital of Ireland by the year end, with the facility scheduled to open in late 2014, the head of the building project said yesterday.

THE new Children’s Hospital of Ireland will be more than twice the size of Croke Park, it emerged yesterday.