€60m private hospital in Ennis gets go-ahead

The green light has been given for the construction of a private €60m hospital in Ennis that will create 700 jobs.

This follows Ennis Town Council’s clearing the 97-bed hospital within the 19th-century protected structure that housed the former Our Lady’s Psychiatric Hospital on the outskirts of Ennis.

Applicants, Duesbury Ltd, state the hospital would create 100 construction jobs and 600 jobs when it is operational.