A new €60m private hospital proposed for Ennis has been given the go-ahead.

On Thursday Ennis Town Council granted permission for the 97-bed hospital within the 19th-century protected structure that housed the former Our Lady’s Psychiatric Hospital on the northern outskirts of Ennis, Co Clare.

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The hospitals backers, Duesbury, say it will create up to 700 jobs in the area – 100 in construction and 600 when operational.

The planned hospital will comprise a “full care hospital providing all medical services and ancillary accommodation to include 97 full in-patient beds”, alongside “12 consultant suites with 30 first-strategy recovery cubicles and office accommodation”.

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