Campaigners call for end to direct provision after young mother dies at Cork centre

Campaigners have repeated calls for an end to direct provision after a young mother took her own life in a Cork accommodation centre.

Gardaí were called to the Kinsale Rd facility at around 8.15pm on Tuesday and found the body of the 36-year-old woman from South Korea dead in her room. She had been living at the facility for between six months and a year.

A Garda spokesman confirmed they are treating the death as a personal tragedy, and are liaising with embassy officials as they prepare a file for the coroner’s court.