Council ‘withheld information over plans for private hospital’

THE Cork engineer who has appealed the decision of Limerick County Council to grant permission for a €100 million private hospital in Adare, yesterday accused the council of withholding information from him.

John V Lennon, of consulting engineers John Lennon and Co, is the sole objector to the hospital which the owner of Adare Manor, Tom Kane, wants to build on a 35-acre site within the manor grounds.

Mr Lennon said he had lodged the objections to An Bord Pleanála on his own behalf and was not acting on the instructions of any third party.