Two family centres net €550,000

TWO FAMILY resource centres in Waterford are to receive capital funding to the tune of €550,000.

Minister Martin Cullen has announced the centres — St Brigid’s on the Lower Yellow Road and the Sacred Heart at Richardstown Meadows on the Old Tramore Road — will by funded by the Family Support Agency which comes under Mr Cullen’s remit at the Department of Social and Family Affairs.

Mr Cullen has provided more than €3.4 million in funds to the agency to support capital development building projects at a small number of resource centres around the country including the two Waterford centres.