‘Having a place like this is the fulcrum from which to build a good life’

An innovative housing project is breaking new ground by setting young people on the cusp of homelessness on a new trajectory towards third-level education. Health Correspondent Catherine Shanahan visited Cork’s 39-bed Bishopsgrove campus to see for herself.

OVERNMENT suggestions are 10-a-penny when it comes to tackling the national homelessness crisis. Not so bounteous are actions on the ground.

Talk has, however, morphed into something more tangible in a quiet Cork city suburb, where an innovative housing project is breaking new ground.