'I’ll never leave the apartment now, that’s my home now' — Terry Kearney

Terry Kearney was a patient in St Brendan’s psychiatric hospital in Grangegorman during the late 1990s before moving into supported housing for 18 years. Picture: Colin Keegan, Collins Dublin

A housing charity helping people with mental health conditions is expanding its work in Limerick and now has 452 homes nationwide, the Housing Association for Integrated Living (Hail) annual report for 2022 shows.

People can see an "unreal difference" to their lives when this help kicks in, Hail CEO Martina Smith said.