‘I just can’t see how I will cope’

BRIDGET LYNCH is 64 years old, widowed since her handicapped daughter Karen was aged four and at the end of her tether.

Karen, who has Down’s Syndrome, with a heart defect and deformed kneecaps which keep her in a wheelchair most of her days, is about to lose her place in a sheltered workshop.

She is one of a number of adults in Co Clare who has completed a rehabilitation training programme but is looking at a bleak future.