Counsellors critical of ban on gay couples at Cork centre

Counselling staff at the Cork Marriage Counselling Centre (CMCC) have moved to distance themselves from a controversy which has seen Tusla pull funding to the long-running agency.

At the weekend, the Irish Examiner reported that talks over a new service-level agreement between Tusla, as funder, and the CMCC had ended, with the understanding that the centre felt it could not comply with specifications in the proposed agreement which would mean dealing with same-sex couples.