St. Michael's Hospital () is a public hospital in

Dún Laoghaire Dún Laoghaire ( , ) is a suburban coastal town in County Dublin in Ireland. It is the administrative centre of the county of Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown. The town was built up alongside a small existing settlement following 1816 legislation th ...

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. It is managed by

Ireland East Hospital Group The Ireland East Hospital Group () is one of the hospital groups established by the Health Service Executive in Ireland. History The grouping of hospitals was announced by the Minister for Health, James Reilly, in May 2013, as part of a restructu ...

History

The hospital, which was designed by John L. Robinson, was founded by the

Sisters of Mercy The Sisters of Mercy is a religious institute for women in the Catholic Church. It was founded in 1831 in Dublin, Ireland, by Catherine McAuley. In 2019, the institute had about 6,200 Religious sister, sisters worldwide, organized into a number ...

in 1876. In 2001, St. Michael's Hospital joined the St. Vincent's Healthcare Group, which also administers St. Vincent's University Hospital and St. Vincent's Private Hospital. In 2007 the Sisters of Mercy sold a car park behind the hospital to Noel Smyth, a developer, for residential development. St. Vincent's Healthcare Group confirmed at the time that it had no plans to dispose of the hospital 'either by sale or site swap'.

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