Glanmire site recommended for new €100m hospital

The Glanmire site, which was originally developed as a TB sanatorium in 1954, is home to an acute mental health unit, an Alzheimer’s unit, administration facilities and some Tusla operations

St Stephen's Hospital, Glanmire, Cork has been selected to be the site for the new €100m elective hospital for Munster. Picture: Dan Linehan

The proposed €100m elective hospital for Munster is to be built on a huge state-owned health campus in Glanmire on the eastern fringes of Cork City.

The 117-acre St Stephen’s Hospital site in Sarsfield Court has been recommended to the Health Minister Stephen Donnelly as the preferred location for the hospital, which will have 10 surgical theatres and could have 400 to 600 beds, to cater for day-care and in-patient cases.