A group advocating the provision of a Children's Hospital at the Mater site in Dublin has said it is shocked the development will not go ahead.

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

PLANNING permission for a new National Children’s Hospital on a site adjacent to the Mater in Dublin city centre will be lodged within two weeks, the government confirmed yesterday.

Designs for the national children's hospital must be passed on to planners immediately, a leading charity has said.

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.

A COALITION of children’s rights groups has called on the Government to dump any plans to implement recommendations in the McCarthy Report.

AFTER a hugely successful two-month tour visiting children in hospitals across Ireland, the Children in Hospital Ireland Roadshow is drawing to a close with three events in Cork.

IRELAND’S €800 million National Paediatric Hospital could face significant difficulties unless its planned capacity takes account of the country’s surging under-18 population, experts have warned.

A leading children's charity says health budget cuts will not affect the building of a new National Children's Hospital.

The number of children being admitted to hospitals in Ireland is on the increase, according to new figures out today.

SERIOUS weaknesses in child law have been identified in a new report published yesterday by the Law Society.

MORE than 100 healthy children were kept for days and sometimes months in three cash-strapped Dublin hospitals last year because there was nowhere else for them to stay.