Children's Hospital project rises like phoenix from difficult past

Ireland’s long-awaited National Children’s Hospital has been named after the phoenix, and like the mythical firebird, it has risen from its difficult past.

The €1bn children’s hospital, which is under construction, will be known as the Phoenix Children’s Hospital Ireland.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and Health Minister Simon Harris turned the sod for the paediatric outpatients and urgent care centre at Connolly Hospital, Dublin, yesterday.