Pressure mounts to green light community hospital

POLITICAL pressure is mounting for a decision to give the go-ahead to a long-awaited, 72-bed community hospital in Dingle.

Delays with the project, which has been at number one on the regional health service priority list for eight years, are leading to frustration in the area.

Dingle Fine Gael councillor Seamus Mac Gearailt claimed the project was “lost in bureaucracy” and warned that planning permission, granted in July 2002, will lapse next year if work does not get under way.