HSE to ditch plans for residential mental health facility at isolated Cork hospital

The HSE is set to scupper plans to build a new 50-bed mental health residential facility at St Stephen’s Hospital in Glanmire — a move that is being welcomed by local mental health advocates.

The health service had spent more than two years planning for the facility, which was projected to cost some €64m.

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