CoAction Parents Alliance

23/01/2025

🚨 Important Update from Cork University Hospital 🚨
All Outpatient, Non-urgent Clinics, and Appointments at CUH on Friday, 24th January, are cancelled. We strongly urge the public to heed the Red Weather Warning and avoid travel to appointments tomorrow. If an appointment must go ahead, CUH staff will contact patients directly.

🔴 Cancelled: All outpatient, non-urgent clinics, and appointments.
📞 We will reach out to reschedule.
✅ Essential appointments: Patients will be contacted directly.
🏥 Emergency services remain open.

Please follow Met Éireann updates, avoid unnecessary travel, and stay safe. Thank you for your understanding during this time!

14/11/2024

It’s beyond words how in a modern 1st world Republic this is allowed to happen. Unfortunately Jasmine is not the only child will additional needs that has being refused a place in Coláiste Pobail Bheanntraí - Bantry Community College. There are a number of others. It’s hard to believe that despite being made aware of this issue, by both CoAction West Cork and by parents over a year ago, our political reps, school board of management, Cork ETB and the NCSE have utterly failed these children and their families. Christopher O'Sullivan TD Michael Collins Independent TD West Cork Down Syndrome Support Group West Cork Jesters Rugby Senator Tim Lombard Bantry Business Association, Clare O'Callaghan -Sinn Féin Cork South West Anne Rabbitte TD Holly Cairns TD Paul Byrne C103 Cork FUSS Ireland Cork's Red FM Bantry Tidy Towns

04/11/2024

26/01/2023

The CEO of CoAction West Cork Gobnait Ni Chrualaoi has today tendered her resignation. While no one takes pleasure in seeing someone losing or leaving their job, this resignation, along with the resignation of 7 of 8 board members before Christmas, was somewhat inevitable due to the disconnect that existed between the management and the service users and their families.
We trust the new board and a new CEO will now move forward as one and put the service users and their families at the heart of all decision making

23/12/2022

Last night, an EGM was held to elect and vote in new Trustees for CoAction. We would like to congratulate and welcome our new trustees. we are looking forward to what 2023 will bring for our children and families. We would also like to thank Theresa Hickey our current trustee who worked above and beyond to bring our new trustees together we are all very grateful for all of Theresa's hard work she is such a incredible person.

We would also like to wish all of the wonderful staff on the ground and everyone in our community a very Happy Christmas and a huge thank you to everyone for all the support the past few weeks. We believe that so many good things are on the horizon for CoAction going forward.

10/12/2022

Please see attached a press release from the Coaction Branch Network

09/12/2022

Link to C103 interview this morning with Conor Cronin and Joan Carroll. The Coaction piece starts at 12 minutes in

‎Show C103, Ep CorkToday 9 December 2022 - 9 Dec 2022

09/12/2022

https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuc3ByZWFrZXIuY29tL3Nob3cvMzM2ODY5MS9lcGlzb2Rlcy9mZWVk/episode/Njg1Y2JiZWI1YTg2YTY4Nzc0NzRlNDNkYzhlMDY4ODY?ep=14

On Monday we brought you the story that children from the Bantry Child and Family Centre were being asked to move to a separate facility that did not meet their needs. Since then there has been a U-turn. Conor Cronin, who is a parent of a child who attends the facilities, gave us an update on what h...

08/12/2022

Thank you everyone for your support, you have helped us fight for our children, fight for what they deserve, you have listened to their voice and our parents and guardian's voices, our founding members voice. WEST CORK and beyond thank you all. We will be following up with our own press release shortly but in the meantime Conor and Joan will be on with Patricia on C103 the morning. Tomorrow's protest is cancelled

IN a day which saw two major twists to the CoAction Bantry saga, it has just been announced the proposal regarding the change of use of the organisation's premises will not now go ahead.Earlier, five of CoAction’s seven trustees resigned, following weeks of acrimony over plans