Connolly Hospital

The Connolly Hospital Blanchardstown (Irish: Ospidéal Uí Chonghaile Baile Bhlainséir) is a teaching hospital in Blanchardstown, Dublin, Ireland.

[1] The hospital, which was initially established as a tuberculosis sanitarium, was designed by Norman White[2] and constructed by Sisk Builders.

[3] In 2005 a new accident and emergency unit, new operating theatres, new surgery facilities and a new intensive care unit were officially opened by the Minister of State for Children, Brian Lenihan, who also announced that the hospital would be renamed the Connolly Hospital Blanchardstown.

[4] The government allocated 6.8 acres on the Abbotstown lands at Blanchardstown for the building of a hospice under the care of the Daughters of Charity.

[6] The hospital provides clinical teaching as part of the graduate entry program to medicine for the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland.

The National Children's Hospital Satellite Centre Connolly Hospital opened in 2019
The rear of St Francis' Hospice, in the townland of Abbotstown.
Connolly Hospital campus bilingual signs