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There’s a Tunnel Under Ballybrit Business Park by Iarlaith Ní Fheorais

There's a Tunnel Under Ballybrit Business Park

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Cover of There’s a Tunnel Under Ballybrit Business Park (2026) by Iarlaith Ní Fheorais. Design by Daly & Lyon.

Iarlaith Ní Fheorais wrote There’s a Tunnel Under Ballybrit Business Park in the framework of access: practices and habits.

There’s a Tunnel Under Ballybrit Business Park critiques the continuing rise of Ireland as a key location for the global medical technology industry. As multinational corporation revenues soar, state bodies tightly regulate access to publicly-funded healthcare. Ní Fheorais investigates the land-use techniques, landscape aesthetics and architecture of MedTech as an inheritance of the colonial regime of the British Empire and dogma of the Catholic Church that create these conditions. Through her account of the barriers encountered in accessing prosthetic care, it becomes evident that infrastructure plays a crucial role in shaping the politics of healthcare, and how access to medical technologies is managed.