Children’s hospital twice size of Croke Park

THE new Children’s Hospital of Ireland will be more than twice the size of Croke Park, it emerged yesterday.

The €750 million hospital, which will have up to 399 single, en-suite bedrooms, will be built on a 6.5 acre site beside the Mater Hospital in Dublin.

The building, with floor space measuring one million square feet, will also have 800 car spaces and it is planned to locate a Metro railway station beside it.