A tour of Cork University Hospital

A few days ago my wife Jacinta and I were invited to tour the new maternity wing of Cork University Hospital. It’s due to open officially on March 24, only a few days away now!

I asked the very pleasant security guard if I could take any photos but he said that I needed permission to shoot. Perhaps if I had time but the tour was about to start so I made do with remembering as much of it as possible.

I’ll update this post with details of the tour over the next few hours. We were really impressed, but they didn’t plan a few areas of the hospital properly, which is going to bite them in years to come.

22 Mar This entry was written by Donncha O Caoimh, posted on March 22, 2007 at 9:08 am, filed under Architecture, Canon 20D, Cork, Ireland, Photos, Sigma 10-20, Sky, Urban, Wilton and tagged Architecture, Canon 20D, Cork, Cork Photos, cork-university-hospital, CUH, CUMH, hospital, Ireland, Irish photos, irishblogs, maternity-hospital, Photos, Sigma 10-20, Sky, Urban, Wilton. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.

12 Comments

Flickr: Andrew Biorn

Posted March 23, 2007 at 10:24 am | #

Andrew Biorn has posted a comment:

What filters did you use on this one? The sky is a nice gradient but the rest of the image appears largely unaffected.

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Flickr: xeer

Posted March 23, 2007 at 11:08 am | #

xeer has posted a comment:

ahem, it wasn’t a filter, I used an overlay layer with a black to transparent gradient. Works a treat for skies, especially as the black doesn’t affect the clouds or white building in this case!

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Flickr: Andrew Biorn

Posted March 24, 2007 at 4:46 am | #

Andrew Biorn has posted a comment:

Thanks

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Flickr: Agent00SoulOrthodoxy.net

Posted March 29, 2007 at 11:31 am | #

Agent00SoulOrthodoxy.net has posted a comment:

colleagues !!

here is Brother of Mercy ,,

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celem neau

Posted May 2, 2007 at 11:27 am | #

are you aware of any foul and ignorant play at c.u.h.

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Tim

Posted October 3, 2007 at 11:48 pm | #

Can anyone find me former midwife una flanagan? Must be in her 70s by now and I’d like to get in touch with her.

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Tim

Posted October 3, 2007 at 11:50 pm | #

Can someone inform me as to the whereabouts of Una Flanagan? Revered midwife of Cork, originally from county Waterford.

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Fi

Posted October 22, 2007 at 11:10 am | #

I think she is a friend of my mothers!I will find out and check back with you!

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Fi

Posted October 22, 2007 at 11:11 am | #

Soryy should have said that is in response to Tim who is looking for Una Flanagan!

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Maternity Wear

Posted January 19, 2008 at 12:07 am | #

Just getting into photo great looking shot

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Rob

Posted March 25, 2008 at 4:46 pm | #

Great looking shot!!

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INGRIDA

Posted February 2, 2009 at 1:00 pm | #

HI, i want to say thank you. I had my baby-boy in this hospital. All doctors and midwifes are great. Especially thanks to the midwife which was with me in the 9 ward (04-12-2008), when born my lithuanian baby-boy.

MANY THANKS

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