A long-awaited helipad could be operational at Cork University Hospital (CUH) within a year. The Irish Examiner has learned that health chiefs hope construction on the delayed piece of critical infrastructure will start this summer and take up to nine months to complete. It means CUH, one of the country’s largest hospitals and a level trauma centre for the south, could have an operational helipad by March 2024, more than 20 years after its original helipad was decommissioned. See Full Story.