Limerick improvement projects

from Irish Examiner. Great and badly needed boost for the Limerick region. I love the new building.

'A 99-bed private hospital has opened in Limerick, just two and a half years after construction began, with the Bon Secours hospital welcoming its first patients this week.

It is the first hospital to be built and opened in Ireland since the private Beacon hospital opened in 2006 and the HSE’s Cork University Maternity Hospital opened in 2007.

It was built by construction firm Sisk and is expected to treat more than 50,000 patients annually.

The €213m investment includes the first private cardiac cath-lab for the Mid-West region, covering Limerick, Clare, and Tipperary, as well as neighbouring counties.'

Yes. How many I couldn't tell you and is it enough to really cause a major problem I don't know.

In terms of nurses word is it's more places like nursing homes will suffer with people wanting to move up to better paid hospital work.

This is all anecdotal on my part.

I get that an entitlement culture is deeply embedded in a lot of motorists but a harsh dose of reality is needed for such attitudes and mindsets.

Archaic and primitive policies in favour of car prioritisation may still be the norm in Irish Local Authorities, one of the primary factors in our urban centres being so unnattractive. But as usual we are well behind the rest of Europe in terms of urban design, land use and transportation. Limerick city centre was surrendered to car dominance 60 years ago and the fortunes of the city centre from a commercial and residential standpoint have struggled ever since.

Until Limerick Council realises that our ugly, neglected, cluttered and hostile streets are a major barrier to the development of sustainable communities of city centre residents and by extension attracting retail/commercial investment then we're forever going to be stuck in this tragic doom cycle.

The lazy assertion that traffic must be funnelled through city centres has been debunked over and over again. Even Dublin City Council's recent findings showed that 60% of through traffic was using the city centre as a rat run. Helpfully Limerick has a three quarters of a billion Euro bypass intercepting all 5 national routes converging on the city. It also has arterial routes like Childers Road, Pa Healy Road, Northern Relief Road to carry traffic away from the city centre. The long promised signed orbital route along Parnell Street, Mallow Street, Henry Street, William Street etc would be useful also.

Ultimately there is no reason whatsoever to use the city centre as a rat run and most certainly there is no rationale for the central portion of O'Connell Street to continue to be wasted on vehicular travel. The laziness and entitlement of motorists needs to be defeated for the greater good of the city centre.

Ya technically it's a hospital and technically it's new but it is replacing an existing hospital and doing much the same type of service. Judging by what I hear people saying they think Limerick is getting a new full UHL style hospital.

Look at the new surgical hub in Punches Cross and compare the levels of excitement between that new facility and this new "hospital" that so many are exited about. A fair bit of that is media driven and terminology based.

I can just see the complaints on the street in a few years when everyone complaints A&E is still fuked despite a "whole new hospital" being built.

It will also be available for public patients free if referred by the HSE. It's a very welcome facility.

I'm also personally excited about the road behind it because Ballysimon is possibly the unfriendliest road in Limerick for cyclists. Nice to have an alternative route.

Same type of service as in it will by referred patients. It was speaking only about its relationship to UHL as was mentioned above where the overwhelming bad press is regarding A&E which is a very different type of hospital.

Is it some sort of money or insurance scam that these places won't build multi-storey ?

There is staff parking across the road in Northern trust

My experience of having surgery in the current Barringtons was a case of trying to get me out the door by 6pm come hell or high water. I was in no fit state to be sent home but they needed me out so the ward could close for the night. The nurse was more concerned with me potentially delaying her getting home than my condition.

You'd hope so anyway. More like a Galway clinic hopefully.