IBD centres in Ireland
6 hospitals with a dedicated service for Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis. Listed alphabetically by city — not ranked.
Cork
Mercy University Hospital
The Centre for Gastroenterology at Mercy University Hospital runs an IBD Centre with over 2,000 IBD patients on its database. The IBD team includes an IBD Advanced Nurse Practitioner and an IBD Nurse Specialist.
Dublin
Children's Health Ireland at Crumlin
Children's Health Ireland runs the national paediatric gastroenterology, hepatology, intestinal failure and transplant service (GHIFT), providing care for all children in Ireland with digestive or liver disease, including inflammatory bowel disease (ulcerative colitis, Crohn's disease and IBDU). The team includes clinical nurse specialists and advanced nurse practitioners in IBD. A dedicated IBD Clinical Nurse Specialist service supports children and families, with its own email and a daytime voicemail line.
Dublin
St James's Hospital
The gastroenterology service at St James's Hospital is supported by two dedicated inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) nurses, alongside an upper GI coordinator and a clinical nurse specialist in gastroenterology. The IBD Nurse Service publishes its own phone line and email for patients. GP and consultant referrals to the outpatient clinics are accepted via Healthlink.
Dublin
Beaumont Hospital
Beaumont's IBD unit is a tertiary referral centre for the management of inflammatory bowel disease. Consultants work alongside clinical nurse specialists and advanced nurse practitioners, managing complex cases with biologic and advanced therapies and running sub-specialty clinics for adolescents transitioning from paediatric care. It is one of the first Irish centres to integrate point-of-care intestinal ultrasound into routine IBD assessment, and it runs an active clinical trials team.
Dublin
St Vincent's University Hospital
St Vincent's runs a weekly consultant-led IBD clinic inside its Centre for Colorectal Disease, established in 1983 to combine clinical care with IBD and colorectal cancer research. The clinic is jointly staffed by gastroenterologists and a colorectal surgeon, with IBD clinical nurse specialists contactable by email. The hospital also runs a dedicated IBD psychology service.
3 named clinicians
Dublin
Tallaght University Hospital
Tallaght's IBD service cares for more than 3,000 patients in its catchment, offering outpatient clinics, biologic infusions in the Rynd Infusion Suite, a community management pathway, and surgery where it is needed. It runs an IBD nurse line staffed by named clinical nurse specialists, alongside a dedicated patient email address.
6 named clinicians
This directory is informational, not a ranking or a recommendation, and no centre pays to be listed. Details change — always confirm with the centre before acting, and speak to your own clinician about your care.