Below is an excerpt from the letter sent from the Chair of the Joint Medical Board [of the three Dublin children’s hospitals] to the CEO of the Children’s Hospital Group Board (CHGB), dated 12th Oct2017. The CHGB denied receiving the letter(Irish Times, Bardon/Wall, 23 Oct 2017).

“As an item  on the  agenda  of  our  recent  Joint  Medical  Board  the  proposed  name  for  the  New  Paediatric Hospital i.e. Phoenix Children’s Hospital, was discussed… A subsequent  vote by the Joint Medical  Board members  was unanimous  in its rejection  of the name ‘Phoenix Children’s Hospital’ for the New Paediatric Hospital.”