Cork's Life Centre faces up to potential closure

YOU would struggle to find it on a map and it definitely takes a few circuits in the car but the Life Centre in Cork City is, for some early school-leavers, the ultimate destination.

That’s ultimate, as in, the last stop, the place where if you can’t make your education stick, then there may be no alternatives available.

The Cork Life Centre is one of four on the island of Ireland, with two others in Dublin and one in Belfast. However, the Cork centre, based in a beautiful old building in Sunday’s Well in the city, is the largest and is proving so popular it has been turning away referrals as it can’t take them in.