IRELAND
Dublin Live
BY AENGUS O’HANLON
A father and son are taking on the State to in a bid to stop the Sisters of Charity from taking ownership of the proposed €300million National Maternity Hospital.
Veteran campaigner Dick Spicer, 70, and his son Norman have launched a High Court challenge against the decision, which they claim is unconstitutional.
The Spicers were keen to state that they had no issue with any religious order, or their beliefs, but rather the Government, for what they said was the “inexplicable decision” to build the new hospital at St Vincent’s.
There was a public outcry when it announced last month that the Sisters were to be handed full ownership of the taxpayer-funded facility, which will be built on the St Vincent’s Hospital campus in Dublin 4.
Mr Spicer, a co-founder of the Campaign to Separate Church and State, said: “There is a State-owned site in Tallaght right beside a major hospital with gynaecology.
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