Children’s Hospital faces objections as plans are lodged

Project has already suffered serious setbacks

The site of the new 650 million National Childrens Hospital in Dublin 8.

Planning permission will be lodged with An Bord Pleanála for the new €650 million National Children’s Hospital early this week.

The hospital, which is due to be built on the campus of St James’s Hospital in Dublin 8, will bring together three existing hospitals in Dublin – Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital Crumlin, Temple Street Children’s University Hospital, and the National Children’s Hospital at Tallaght Hospital.

The proposed hospital will be seven storeys high ...