Local authority ‘does not care about northsiders’

TEENS who took part in a mental health study in a Cork City suburb believe the local authority does not care about their locality and that they are regarded as scumbags.

Participants in the Southern Health Board’s (SHB) Young Minds Matter, a pilot programme for Knocknaheeny teenagers, said conditions in the area get them down. However, the spirit of the people living in the northside suburb was positive and worthy of praise, they believed.

The state of an area’s built-environment is a key influencing factor on a person’s mental health, they said, and a lot needed to be done to improve the area’s physical appearance.