Disabled to benefit from €4.5m leisure centre

More than 600 disabled adults and children will get the chance to use a special hydrotherapy pool which is being developed as part of a €4.5 million leisure centre complex in West Cork.

Final plans for the leisure centre in Dunmanway have been released by Cork County Council, which hopes to have work commence by June and completion by December 2015.

The news was welcomed by Maurice Walsh, chief executive of CoAction, which looks after 470 children and 140 adults in the region.