Irish Examiner view: Limerick hospital failure brings shame on every person responsible

UHL scandal is mostly due to a health service reorganisation which many people had prophesied would end in chaos

Irish Examiner health correspondent Niamh Griffin comprehensively summarised the continuing catalogue of failure at University Hospital Limerick. Picture: Dan Linehan

The gaping wound on the reputation of mid-west Ireland’s emergency services and care provision opened up many years ago. It shows no more sign of healing than it did in 2009.

The scandalous catalogue of service failure was comprehensively summarised by our health correspondent, Niamh Griffin, in Saturday’s newspaper under the headline ‘UHL Crisis: “Appointments cancelled, no replacement date given, does Limerick Hospital even care?”’