Backing for 16-bed stepdown facility in Cork city

The State must now provide funding to allow a rehab charity open a stepdown facility in Cork after a breakthrough in a stand-off which has seen the property lying idle for almost a decade.

The call came after the HSE finally signalled its support for Cuan Mhuire’s proposal to open a 16-bed facility on the city’s Western Rd designed to break the cycle of homelessness.