No methadone clinic here, says health centre landlord

THE landlord of Cork city’s newest primary healthcare centre has strongly denied that a methadone clinic is to be established at the Blackrock premises.

Kieran Coughlan, of Lyonshall, who owns Blackrock Hall with his business partner Clare Riordan said “there will never be a methadone clinic here”.

“If there are rumours circulating, they are not true. As the landlord, I can categorically tell you that the terms of the lease to the HSE expressly stipulates that their section of the building won’t be used for methadone dispersal. Blackrock Hall is also a private clinic and we won’t be having any such facility here”.