Mother’s anger over state of hospital

LINDA DILLON will never forget the night she rose from the hospital vigil she kept beside her sick little girl.

Looking out of the third-floor window across the expansive compound of Our Lady’s Hospital for Sick Children in Crumlin, Dublin, all she could think about was her daughter, who had been diagnosed with cancer. Yet, the sight that greeted her was less than edifying.

“I was on the top of the main building and I could make out the flat roofs of the flimsy-looking structures below me.