Enable Ireland sets €7m funding goal to build state-of-the-art Cork centre

Children’s disability service Enable Ireland is seeking to raise €7m over the next four years after being granted planning permission for a state-of-the-art centre in Cork.

Enable Ireland provides therapy and support services to more than 600 children and young people with disabilities from the Lavanagh Centre in Ballin-temple, on behalf of the HSE. It has said the building is in disrepair and no longer fit to accommodate the needs of the children and families.

The seven-acre site in Curaheen, on which planning permission has been granted, will house a new children’s services centre with a hydrotherapy pool, garden, playground, therapy rooms, and sensory rooms.