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September opening for €60m hospital and hospice in Cork
A €60 million hospital providing palliative care and services for older people will open in Cork this September, reports Olivia Kelleher.
Marymount/St Patrick’s Hospital is leaving its historic city home at Wellington Road, St Luke’s Cross, where it has been since 1870. The new hospice and hospital is located at Curraheen.
Before the official opening, members of the public can apply for a walkabout tour of the building and facilities. “We expect these tours to happen in late summer and would ask people to e-mail or write to us now for details, giving us their name and address,” said fundraising chairwoman Regina Donnelly.
The facility includes a 75-bed hospital and 44-bed hospice. The Health Service Executive is providing €17.5 million and Atlantic Philanthropies is giving €10 million.
Wildfires across Kerry mountains
A series of wildfires has swept across mountainous areas in Kerry over the past five days, almost a month into the six-month period where it is illegal to burn gorse.
The fire service attended a fire in Stoompa, Mangerton, at the edge of Killarney National Park, yesterday. It was the second day in a row and the third in five days that the fire crew had to attend the area.
There were also serious fires over the weekend in the Gap of Dunloe in Killarney and on the Slieve Mish mountains outside Tralee, according to the council.
Walsh daughter settles case
The daughter of a woman whose badly beaten body was found dumped in the River Suir has settled an action against her mother's second husband for a share of the house in Waterford where the couple lived for a number of years.
Legal sources confirmed that Sasha Keating (21), from Ballyhooley, North Cork, reached a settlement with John O'Brien, who was acquitted of the murder of his wife and Ms Keating's mother, Meg Walsh, in 2006.
Ms Keating had begun the legal action last week.
Geoghegan murder retrial date set
The retrial of the man charged with rugby player Shane Geoghegan's murder will begin next January.
A jury failed to reach a verdict last week following a four-week trial at the Central Criminal Court so another jury will have to retry the case.
Barry Doyle (24), with addresses at Portland Row, Dublin, and Hyde Road, Limerick, pleaded not guilty to murdering the 28-year-old Garryowen player.