Parents protest disabled centre cuts

SEAMUS COWMAN never thought it would come to this – parading his severely disabled daughter in a protest against health spending cutbacks.

“It’s awful that we have to resort to this but it is the only way we can show how desperate we have become,” he said.

The protest of more than 100 parents took place yesterday evening on the Navan Road in Dublin, just outside the St Vincent’s Centre, which is run by the Daughters of Charity.