Supporting sick children in

Children's Health Ireland

Learn more about Children's Health Ireland at Crumlin, Temple Street, Tallaght and Connolly and find out how your support is put to work to make a real difference in the lives of sick children from all over Ireland.

Children’s Health Foundation exists to support sick children and their families who attend Children’s Health Ireland hospitals and urgent care centres.

Children’s Health Ireland governs and operates Children’s Health Ireland at Tallaght, Temple Street, Connolly and Crumlin and all national paediatric services, some of which are on an all island basis. You can find out more about the life-saving work that happens in Children’s Health Ireland by reading their 2020 Annual Report.

Watch our short video below to learn more about how we put your donations to work to help transform young lives.

Learn more about CHI

About CHI at Crumlin

Children's Health Ireland at Crumlin is an acute paediatric teaching hospital employing approximately 1900 staff. It is responsible nationally for the provision of the majority of quaternary and tertiary healthcare services for children.

About CHI at
Temple Street

Children's Health Ireland at Temple Street is a teaching hospital of University College Dublin and is responsible for the provision of quaternary and tertiary healthcare services for children.

About CHI at Tallaght

Children’s Health Ireland at Tallaght Children's Outpatient and Emergency Care Unit is open 24 hours 7 days a week and is located on the grounds of Tallaght University Hospital (TUH).

About CHI at
Connolly

Children’s Health Ireland at Connolly in Blanchardstown Children's Outpatient and Urgent Care Centre is part of the new model of care for children’s health services in Ireland providing care as close to the patient's home as is clinically appropriate.

Meet CHI's frontline heroes

Ann Higgins
Hospital School

Meet Ann Higgins, Principal of Temple Street's school and the work they do with young patients.

John Caird
Neurosurgeon

A day in the life of John Caird, Paediatric Neurosurgeon.

Atif Awan
Nephrologist

Over 150 essential kidney transplants have happened for many of our sickest patients in CHI at Temple Street to date.

Lindsey Ahern
Music Therapy

Lindsey Aherne is a Music Therapist and works across Neurosurgery and Palliative care in CHI.

The difference YOU make

Play Area - Children's Health Foundation

Impact of
Your Support

Learn more about the projects we support for sick childen that are made possible by your kindness and generosity.

Meet The Kids - Alexis

Meet the
Children

Meet some of the amazing kids who attend CHI at Crumlin, Temple Street, Tallaght and Connolly.

Read more about Impact

Click here to see our 2020 Annual Report and learn more about the projects your support made possible and the families you've helped.

Meet The Kids - Aoife and Ciara Jane

Read the
Latest News

Check out our news section to find out more about our work and how our supporters are making a difference to the lives of sick children every single day.

Children’s Health Ireland

In Numbers

Learn more below about the work of Children's Health Ireland and the world-class treatment and care they gave to sick children from across the country in 2020:

4000
staff delivered care across Children's Health Ireland in 2020
0
clinical specialities
259000
children and young people received treatment and care across Children's Health Ireland's four locations in Dublin in 2020
82000
Emergency Department Attendances in 2020
128000
Consutant-led outpatient attendances in 2020