Wow a hospital that doesn't feel like a hospital!…read more My mum stayed here recently for a couple of days (nothing too serious) and I visited. Free car park impressed me to start with. Bright modern and airy reception. Friendly staff and a clear signage system. She was in a double room and but seperate Tv with a headphone system. Very impressed and where I'll go if I ever needed my bits sorted out!

Well if it's good enough for the little man in the big house.... Attending the same hospital as…read moreMichael D. Higgins is one of my great non-achievements. It's a bit like the time I saw Paul McGrath in the gym and jumped on a treadmill just so that I could say that, technically, I've trained with Paul McGrath. It's a fantastic, modern building with modern equipment to match. I've had various scans here over the past year for things I didn't even know they could scan. I'm talking electrodes here people. The cafeteria seems nice but I don't think I've had anything more substantial than a bun and a cup of tea. It's certainly very colourful, I'll give them that. Access is easy, the bus from Eyre Square stops right in front of it. And for people like me who tend to fall asleep, the bus stops not a million miles behind it too.

My mother arrived to the hospital to visit my father with a large bag of clothes.she was told by a…read moresecurity guard of foreign nationality that she could not enter due to flu .she rang the ward and they evenually let her in. I have found in the past that the non Irish security are rude beyond belief.no brains or common sense This is a civilised country.they are best suited to work in the rice fields. Most of them arrived here with nothing .someone gives them a uniform and they act like GOD.

Hi,My name is Bill and was taken to UHL late last Fri night Jan 10 2025.All 3 Paramedics were so…read moreprofessional and helpful.At a Hospital which get some criticism and a lot of unjustified negative news is a first class establishment with first class personnel.If you ever want to c a large group of Angels on this lovely Planet they looked after me there,the Nurses.To all the Doctors and staff I say in a very way THANK YOU for getting me through my frightening time,Bill Dunne Newcastle West.

The care was second to none while in the hospital. The Nurses were very good to me. The meals…read moresurprised me they were very nice, sometimes the veg looked a bit steamed but was edible.

It's odd but when I thought about reflecting the experience here the first thing that struck me was…read morethat there's likely 20 different trade unions representing members in this employment: consultants, doctors, radiographers, nurses, boiler-men, podiatrists, junior clerical, senior management and so on. We were here to visit a relative experiencing real challenges. He got a heart - related device implanted several weeks ago: AF, cardiomyopathy. Once fitted, he took himself off to southern Spain allegedly to relax which he tells me included extensive exertion swimming long distances in the sea every morning. The upshot after a few weeks was he developed an infection in the surgical wound that led to Spanish hospital admission. Once fit to fly he returned home on a Saturday, presenting to the private hospital that fitted the device on a Monday. He's there now four weeks. I suppose there's no fool like an old fool after all. They've apparently thrown out the first €12k device. They'll put in another at €12k once his infections, that following a TEE procedure also confirmed a heart infection, clear up; with the help of pretty sizeable antibiotic doses. The Irish Republic has an American - based medical system thanks to a numbskull politician Mary Harney; it also has huge housing, education and immigration problems. Mary is now 71 and may soon learn first hand how awful the health system is for 99% of the population. All she needs is one serious illness to empty her bank accounts: doctors must have their pockets stuffed with gold. The American system gives most Irish people the worst of all worlds despite paying a lot of money. They aren't treated on clinical need rather and usually via pricy insurance on ability to pay. Despite good health insurance our relative now has to find at least €40,000 and counting from his own resources this year. That would make one ill. The hospital is grotty, third world, chaotically run, with a Starbucks cafe in the main concourse that on top of already rip-off prices forces customers to use paper cups then adds 35 cents to the daylight robbery price for each cup. There is only one out of three toilets working here. A hospital, and the only one for miles around, has one working toilet for a lot of footfall and security staff that don't have English as a first language, taking the brunt of understandably unhappy people. They are the only folks prepared to take these low wage, crap, thankless jobs. If immigration stopped so would this badly broken health service that only helps fill the overseas bank accounts of multi millionaires and billionaires. The lily livered politicians are in fear and hock to these people instead of taxing and regulating them properly. Add to this mess Apple: not the fruit that keeps doctors away but the American mega company and the European Court of Justice who ruled Apple must pay Ireland €14 billion. It's a long story worth googling, there's a history here as Apple didn't want to pay and Irish politicians didn't want to receive. Yip it seems an Apple that pays keeps investment away. I think the politicians just don't know how to waste that amount of money. So the hospital reflects Ireland. It looks great from afar but up close it's broken. They can't even organise enough cataract operations to help repair their elderly citizens that built the country. Now it's a mini America. The politicians are useless so nothing will change. While they bungle, bluster and cock up most things (while enriching themselves) the mega companies, foreign and local millionaires and billionaires stuff the Caymans and such places with enough money from the great unwashed to make the €14 billion look like crumbs on the balance sheet. As for me I better stop visiting ill relatives in badly broken hospitals in a very badly run country.