Campaigners plan to oppose HSE hospital statue proposal

THE HSE has confirmed it is preparing an application to Killarney Town Council’s planning department for permission to retain a large statue of the Sacred Heart alongside Killarney Community Hospital.

This could see it head for direct confrontation with the council.

The council’s nine elected members, along with local community groups and individuals, want the statue replaced on the roof over the door of the hospital — where it had been until March 2010, when it was suddenly removed.