*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.
HOPES of building a new hospital in Clare have been brought back to life with the Minister for Health confirming the Mid-West will have a new hospital built within the next ten to fifteen years.
*Cllr Rita McInerney outside the injury unit at Ennis Hospital. Photograph: Eugene McCafferty. A HOST of suitable sites have been put forward by Clare County Council to the HSE as potential locations for a new hospital in the county.
Minister for Health, Jennifer Carroll MacNeill, pictured with the Mayor of Limerick John Moran and (right) Patrick O’Donovan, Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport. Picture: Don Moloney AN INVITATION has been issued to the Health Minister to visit West Clare to gain a better understanding on the need to build a new hospital in Co …
UNPRECEDENTED numbers of patients are presenting at University Hospital Limerick (UHL) this week.
*Minister for Health, Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (FG) in the Seanad. POTENTIAL for building a second emergency department in the Mid-West will be reviewed next year, the Minister for Health has said.