Owenacurra residents make impassioned plea to Taoiseach to save their home

The centre "provides us with a safe place where our mental health, and not our illness, is prioritised", the letter to Mr Martin read.

'Improve Us — Don't Move Us' and 'Keep services local' were the messages from residents of Owenacurra, Midleton, Co Cork, as family members and residents brought a letter to the constituency office of Taoiseach Micheál Martin on Evergreen Rd, Turner's Cross. Picture: Larry Cummins

The residents of a mental health facility in Cork which the HSE has earmarked for closure have made a direct and impassioned plea to the Taoiseach to overturn the decision.

Thomas Roche and Michael O’Sullivan, both long-term residents of the Owenacurra Centre in Midleton, were joined by family members on Friday as they handed a letter into Micheál Martin’s constituency office pleading for him to intervene.