{"id":337635,"date":"2026-03-09T22:01:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T22:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/337635\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T22:01:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T22:01:10","slug":"breaking-decision-made-on-site-for-new-hospital-facility-in-limerick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/337635\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Decision made on site for new hospital facility in Limerick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THE <a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/section\/750\/health\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">DECISION<\/a> on a site for a new hospital facility in Limerick has been made, with the HSE set to acquire 43-acres of land at Raheen.<\/p>\n<p>The news was confirmed this Monday evening, with Health Minister Jennifer Carroll MacNeill giving the green light for the HSE to purchase the site.<\/p>\n<p>The site will welcome a new hospital campus to remove the pressure on University Hospital Limerick (UHL).<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/news\/crime-and-courts\/2034260\/update-unauthorised-encampment-moved-on-from-limerick-in-major-garda-operation.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">\u2018Unauthorised encampment\u2019 moved on from Limerick in major garda operation<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s understood Ms MacNeill is due in Limerick on Tuesday morning to announce the news officially.<\/p>\n<p>The site is located around two kilometres from the existing hospital campus in Dooradoyle. It&#8217;s understood its located in the vicinity of Raheen Industral Estate.<\/p>\n<p>Fine Gael Senator Maria Byrne has welcomed the news.<\/p>\n<p>She said: &#8220;I think it&#8217;s absolutely wonderful to see this happen. Since I&#8217;ve been elected it&#8217;s something I have been working on, and looking for in terms of development. The fact this has been signed off is very welcome.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The facility is coming following a series of recommendations made by the Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA) to solve the overcrowding crisis at UHL.<\/p>\n<p>As revealed by Limerick Live last month, a number of sites were in the mix for the investment, with the site which is being signed off appearing to be the frontrunner.<\/p>\n<p>HIQA had recommended a number of options, three of which Ms MacNeill has accepted.<\/p>\n<p>Option A was to expand capacity at UHL on the Dooradoyle site, Option B to extend the UHL hospital campus to comprise the existing Dooradoyle site and another site, in close proximity to UHL and support the delivery of healthcare services under a single governance.<\/p>\n<p>The final option, C, was to develop a model three hospital in the HSE Mid West, providing a second emergency department for the region.<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"THE DECISION on a site for a new hospital facility in Limerick has been made, with the HSE&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":337636,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[34903,103,61,60,1396,43,17229],"class_list":["post-337635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-dooradoyle","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-limerick","tag-news","tag-university-hospital-limerick"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}