Kerry Care Centre: Campaign to keep centre for adults with special needs open

Singer Daniel O’Donnell has weighed into the campaign by the families of adults with profound needs in Kerry who are resisting plans to move them to houses in towns and villages.

Disability Minister Finian McGrath has agreed to travel to South Kerry to view the centre for the intellectually disabled that parents desperately want to keep open.

St Mary of the Angels, which is run by St John of Gods, is planning to move its 78 high-need adult residents from bungalows on its Beaufort campus into the wider community.