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flag Ireland blocks €100M Rotunda Hospital expansion over heritage concerns, keeping maternity services in Dublin.

flag Ireland’s government has blocked a €100 million extension to the Rotunda Hospital in Dublin due to heritage concerns, confirming the hospital will remain on Parnell Square. flag The decision ends plans to relocate maternity services to Connolly Hospital Blanchardstown. flag Healthcare advocates and opposition leaders warn that decades of underinvestment have left the Rotunda’s facilities, including its high dependency unit, among the worst in the country. flag With the hospital delivering over 8,600 births annually—the most in Ireland—officials and activists are urging immediate political action to improve infrastructure and ensure safe, sustainable maternity care.

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