'Best secret service in Cork' helping vulnerable young women 

For 26-years, the Wellsprings Centre have unobtrusively cared for young women suffering trauma or on the margins of society in Cork.

For the 235 women who have come through the doors of Wellsprings since 1995, the centre has been a home, and continuing point of contact.

For the people working at Wellsprings Centre, it is the hidden gem of children's services, or as someone recently said to manager Valerie McDonnell, "you are like the best secret service in Cork".

For the 235 women who have come through the doors of Wellsprings since 1995, the centre has been a home, and continuing point of contact, the venue for a birthday party or even the sender of a goodnight text message to those who ask for it.