Galway Bay fm newsroom – National crisis pregnancy service Cura, which has a hub in the city, is changing the availability of its services due to a surge in demand.
Cura is Ireland’s Catholic crisis pregnancy support agency, and has seen its website experience a 150 percent increase in visitors over the past two years.
Galway’s Cura hub is based at the Diocesan Educational Center at Newtownsmith, and is one of four main hubs for the agency.
The others are in Dublin, Cork and Waterford.
According to the Irish Times, outreach services will now be provided in the Louth-Monaghan area, Sligo and Tallaght, but some centres in other parts of the country – including Ennis, Athlone and Limerick – will close.
The agency says this is due to an ‘exponential increase’ in online contact, and a 25 percent drop in face-to-face contact at its centres.
However, the Galway hub will remain open.
Cura president Bishop Éamonn Walsh says the service is evaluating how best to meet access needs of clients in an environment very different to that of 1977, when the agency was established.
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