The name of the new children’s hospital is “unlikely to be Phoenix”, Minister for Health Simon Harris has said. Speaking in bitter cold at the site of the new hospital, at St James’s in Dublin, Mr Harris said he had been “putting a lot of time into the building of the hospital”. I think it’s unlikely to be Phoenix. ”His comments came after a hospital in Arizona, called Phoenix Children’s Hospital, raised concerns about the Irish use of the same name. “I think it’s important we reflect on the name and I will make a decision in terms of the name in advance of legislation that will bring the new children’s hospital into being in 2018,” he said.

Source: The Irish Times December 08, 2017 15:45 UTC