Children’s hospital ‘very interested’ in private proposal

THE hospital which controversially withdrew from plans for a new children’s hospital is prepared to re-enter talks if health authorities agree to consider a fresh proposal from a private developer on a new site.

Our Lady’s Hospital for Sick Children in Crumlin said it was “very interested” in plans for a new children’s hospital on a 20-acre site between Newlands Cross and Citywest, Dublin.

The proposal, the brainchild of Limerick developer Richard Farrington, includes plans to tri-locate children’s, adult and maternity hospitals.