Homeless youth get fresh start with Foyer

YOUNG people at risk of homelessness will get a fresh start at life thanks to a €3 million centre officially opened in Cork yesterday.

Housing Minister Noel Ahern toured the city’s first Foyer project based in the former Assumption Convent in Blackpool and met its first residents.

He was greeted by was Rory Canning, 20, who’s been living there since March 2. Rory comes from a broken home and had been living in Mount St Joseph’s home in Passage West, a fully dependent unit, since he was 11.