Irish Examiner view: Support for planned children’s hospital

Cork University Hospital, where the new children's hospital will be located.

It might be — just a tad — southern smug to suggest with a straight face that the plans unveiled yesterday for a €60m children’s hospital in Cork might well come to fruition long before the national children’s hospital being built in Dublin city centre offers a bed to its first patient.

Equally, it must be hoped that the Cork project does not drag on for at least 23 years and become an embarrassing symbol of administrative ineptitude, budget over-runs, and sectional interests given a free rein.