Cork Sexual Health Centre: Young people today have a healthy open attitude to sex

It’s 30 years since the Sexual Health Centre first opened its doors in Cork, a time when we didn’t even have a language to talk about sex, says CEO Deirdre Seery. Today, Ireland is transformed, she tells Ailín Quinlan.

On the wall behind Deirdre Seery’s desk hang two beautiful ceramic plaques.

The pieces, she explains, were donated in the 1990s by a local artist, to what was then the Cork AIDS Alliance, for display at a ‘safe’ house in the Cork suburb of Bishopstown.