An Irish hospital to match the best in the US

I HAVE been in Ireland every year for the last 12 for periods ranging from two weeks to serval months. I read the papers and watched RTÉ.

So you might imagine my concern when my GP suggested that I needed a short hospital stay for my ailment.

In fact, given what I had read and the images I had seen of Irish hospital admission facilities I gave serious thought to getting a next flight back to America.