*Bishop Fintan Monahan & St Flannan’s College principal, Fr Ignatius McCormack. Photograph: John O’Neill A ‘HOLY ROW’ over contentious plans for a new €25m community hospital on diocesan owned green space at St Flannan’s College in Ennis has taken a fresh twist.
*An aerial view of St Flannan’s College. CLARE COUNTY COUNCIL has given the green light to contentious HSE plans for a new €25m community hospital on green space at St Flannan’s College in Ennis.
*St Flannan’s staff objecting the plans. CLARE COUNTY COUNCIL should be in no doubt that there is an overwhelming rejection by the entire school community at St Flannan’s College in Ennis to HSE plans for a €25m community hospital on the college’s green space.
*A review has been sought by county councillors. HSE OFFICIALS have been urged to review arrangements at Ennis Hospital including identifying a greenfield site to allow for further development.
*Bishop Fintan Monahan. Photograph: John O’Neill THE BISHOP of Killaloe, Fintan Monahan is remaining tight-lipped on the intervention of a school Board of Management in the ‘holy row’ over diocesan plans to sell off school green space for a €25m HSE community hospital.
ALMOST DOUBLE the amount of Clare people are awaiting treatment for cataracts since 2021.
*Cllr Ian Lynch, Cllr Cillian Murphy and Michael Harty. Photograph: John Mangan A WEST CLARE representative has admitted he is “gobsmacked” that the HSE do not have a geographic breakdown on where in the Mid-West patients are admitted to University Hospital Limerick (UHL) from.
BISHOP of Killaloe, Fintan Monahan has confirmed that the diocese intends to press ahead with the sale of a greenfield site at St Flannan’s College in Ennis in spite of the opposition by staff at the college to the move.
*Deputy Michael McNamara (IND). MOVES WERE MADE within the Department of Health to ‘shut down’ the Dáil’s COVID-19 committee for asking too many questions, its Chairman has claimed.
*Leo Varadkar speaking to the media at University Hospital Limerick. Photograph: Brian Arthur AN TAOISEACH, Leo Varadkar (FG) has said it is an unfair analysis that successive Governments he has been involved in have done nothing to alleviate concerns of the people of the Mid-West that they have been left behind when it comes to …
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