*Photograph: Don Moloney. POLITICIANS and local media in Clare were “excluded” from Tuesday’s official announcement by the Minister for Health that a new €14m hospital would be built in Raheen.
Minister Carroll MacNeill is pictured here with Patrick O’Donovan TD Minister for Arts, Culture, Communications, Media and Sport; and with Kieran O’Donnell TD, Minister of State for Older People and Housing. Photograph: Don Moloney. HEALTH OFFICIALS and Fine Gael politicians were all smiles in Limerick on Tuesday morning as the powers that be once again …
CO CLARE has been overlooked again with a new hospital to be built in Limerick to ease the burden on University hospital Limerick (UHL).
*Ambulances at UHL. AMBULANCES in West Clare have an average turnaround time of four hours per call for emergencies to University Hospital Limerick (UHL).
*Chairperson of Friends of Ennis Hospital, Angela Coll. Photograph: Tom Micks. AN ANNOUNCEMENT is to be made before St Patrick’s Day on whether the Mid-West’s new hospital will be located in Clare, Limerick or Tipperary.
*Mhairi Barron, Registered Advanced Nurse Practitioner at the Injury Unit in Ennis Hospital MORE than 53,000 patients avoided unnecessary long waits at the busy Emergency Department during 2025 by attending the three Mid West Injury Units at St John’s, Ennis and Nenagh Hospitals. The three units processed a total of 53,489 minor injuries This was …
*Jessica Sheedy A YOUNG girl’s surgery at UHL leading to her death “should not have been performed,” the HSE have admitted. Jessica Sheedy (18) from Bruff, Limerick, experienced complications in May 2018 during surgery to remove a large but benign tumour from her abdomen at University Hospital Limerick (UHL). She passed away three days later …
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*Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport, Patrick O’Donovan (FG). Photograph: Joe Buckley OIREACHTAS members in the Mid-West need to move away from ‘four-cross roads politics’ and stop volunteering sites for a new hospital, the region’s only Minister has said.
Gloriame Mbongo Essomdo from Ennis, Co Clare, was delighted to meet her Munster rugby heroes when the team visited the Children’s Ark at UHL this week. MEMBERS of the Munster rugby team visited the Children’s Ark paediatric unit at University Hospital Limerick, to dispense some festive cheer among the young paediatric patients and nursing and …
*Friends of Ennis Hospital Chairperson Angela Coll with PJ Cunningham. Photograph: Martin Connolly EFFORTS of health campaigners across Clare has paid off with sustained advocacy giving the county a shot of being the location for a new hospital with an emergency department.