‘Sad day for sick children’

A father who campaigned for 10 years for a new national children’s hospital said his hair was “now half grey from fighting for it”.

Chairman of the New Crumlin Hospital Group, Louis Roden, who is from Dublin, used to attend Crumlin Hospital with two of his children who have cystic fibrosis.

“We have been in existence 10 years, lobbying for a new children’s hospital to be built anywhere the experts told us to. We have met three ministers for health and we are still waiting,” he said.