Tralee

Geraldine and Killian, both participants on a Special Community Employment Scheme, spoke to Changing Ireland about how they moved from being panicky, nervous and withdrawn to becoming confident, hopeful and action-orientated people. They had both been through treatment, but found the scheme was helpful for them to move on from addiction.

Barry Corkery is one of this year’s selectors on the Cork senior football management team. He is less well known in Cork for his day job as a senior addiction counsellor managing two treatment centres in Tralee, Co. Kerry. Corkery is obviously good with teams and he once told the Irish Examiner that while the HSE got “loads of attention” when things go wrong, the work of his own addiction support teams would blow you away.