Cope Foundation posts €1.36m loss after €5.5m profit

The Cork-based foundation that operates a residential centre that was recently heavily criticised by an independent health watchdog last year recorded losses of over €1.36m.

Last week, Hiqa published a report exposing serious shortcomings in the care offered to residents with intellectual disabilities at the Cope Foundation’s Ard Dara Centre in Montenotte, Cork.

In the report, the foundation was criticised for recording incidents of unexplained bruising and failing to do anything about them or about other allegations of abuse of residents.