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Wed 01 Jan 2007Crumlin children's hospital examines optionsThe board of Our Lady's Hospital for Sick Children in Crumlin, Dublin, is looking at fresh options for its future including rebuilding the hospital on the site it currently occupies.It has also sought and been given advice to the effect that its present site would be large enough to accommodate a maternity hospital, which it believes would be more important for a new children's hospital to co-locate with than an adult teaching hospital. It is also examining a number of greenfield sites.