House for troubled teens may finally open

THE Health Service Executives said last night it hopes to be in a position by the end of April to open a residential centre in Limerick for disturbed youths-nearly seven years after it was completed.

Repeated recruitment campaigns for key staff to work at Coovagh House have been frustrated through lack of interests by prospective applicants.

A spokesman for the HSE said last night: “We are currently completing the recruitment process in respect of Coovagh House and we hope to be in a position to recommence residential services there by the end of April.”