COPE calls for more disabled people in workplace

A DRIVE to get more intellectually disabled people into the workplace is to be undertaken by the COPE Foundation.

RTÉ personality Miriam O’Callaghan launched a video in Mallow yesterday which will be used to highlight the value of employing people with such disabilities.

COPE Foundation manager in Mallow, Jerry Mullane, said the scheme had produced results locally and it was now time to roll it out to the whole of north Cork. He said a drive to get young adults into the workplace had produced excellent results with around 30 employed on a part-time basis and a few in full-time positions.