First opening of a new hospital since 2007 set for this week

The new Bon Secours hospital in Ballysimon, Limerick.

A 99-bed private hospital has opened in Limerick, just two and a half years after construction began, with the Bon Secours hospital welcoming its first patients this week.

It is the first hospital to be built and opened in Ireland since the private Beacon hospital opened in 2006 and the HSE’s Cork University Maternity Hospital opened in 2007.