Taoiseach opens redeveloped €7.5m Cork facility for women and children in need

Good Shepherd Cork CEO Allison Aldred, Chairman Brendan Lenihan, Taoiseach Micheál Martin and Lord Mayor of Cork Deirdre Forde at the opening of a redeveloped €7.5m Cork facility for women and children in need. Picture: Tony O’Connell.

The Taoiseach has officially opened a redeveloped €7.5m Cork facility for women and children who may be homeless or in need and described the service being offered as a “vital” one.

Edel House, an emergency shelter on Grattan Street in the city that first opened in 1972, is managed by Good Shepherd Cork and offers accommodation and supports for women and children who are either homeless or at risk of being so.