Ann calls the Regina Coeli women’s hostel in Belfast “the safest place in all of Northern Ireland”.
“I couldn’t have asked for a better place,” she says. “I was physically, emotionally and mentally abused for years. This place saved my life.”
After almost 80 years of providing refuge, the only women’s-only homeless shelter in all of Northern Ireland is being shut down at the end of next month. Women at the hostel face being sent to mixed emergency accommodation.
