Health scare forces Cork hydrotherapy pool to close

An organisation that specialises in helping people with intellectual disabilities and autism has closed its hydrotherapy pool following a health scare.

The pool at the COPE Foundation’s facility in Montenotte, Cork was closed on Tuesday morning after a member of staff who works at it fell ill.

The foundation’s communications manager, Caroline Riordan, said that COPE was made aware of the employee’s illness last Monday.