Of two national obsessions, the political agitation concerning the new site of the National Maternity Hospital continues to focus on the one that is no longer relevant. The project’s legal framework documents published by the HSE this week show that the last stretch of negotiations has been about property interests – not the social influence of clerics. The previous time any tangible information about the transfer of the National Maternity Hospital to a new building on the campus of St Vincent’s Hospital came to light was last July. At that point, the Religious Sisters of Charity had already committed to…

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