New children’s hospital board chairman resigns

THE head of the controversial National Paediatric Hospital Development Board, Philip Lynch, has resigned his position.

Mr Lynch refused last night to explain why he resigned from the board that is overseeing the development of the children’s hospital at the Mater Hospital site in Dublin.

There is growing speculation that plans to build the hospital may be unravelling, with a growing number of medical practitioners who specialise in paediatrics coming out against the development.