Centre keeping vulnerable teens in education needs €90k to survive

A voluntary centre which helps keep marginalised and vulnerable teenagers in education is facing closure over a funding crisis.

The education minister has been asked to step in and help secure the €90,000 a year to keep the doors of the Cork Life Centre open.

A total of 42 teens, 12 of whom are due to sit the Leaving Cert next year, are now at risk of losing their places if the centre is forced to close.