Slowest country in western Europe for providing rare disease drugs.
The other morning, if you were up at the crack of dawn, you might have heard me addressing this very question on Newstalk. Yes, was my conclusion, and you can listen back here. Anyway, this is what prompted the discussion: Priti Patel, the home secretary, wants chief constables to make public examples of business owners […]
A Brazilian woman who worked as a rickshaw driver in Dublin, and who was ordered by the court to leave the country or spend a year in prison for dealing ecstasy tablets, is still living in Ireland three years later and is collecting the Covid Pandemic Unemployment Payment, a court has heard. Bianca Francisco […]
The HSE has distributed 50,000 crack pipes over the past 5 years to make life safer for drug users. But did this plan work? Ben Scallan reacts. #gript
Let’s face it: they’re not wrong. If ever there was going to be a time to legalise drugs, it’s now, right? We can all forget about this blasted pandemic and get high: Drugs could be decriminalised under the current government if all parties work together to help those with addiction issues, Labour said. Aodhán Ó […]
Residents of the Elm Park housing estate in Clonmel, Co Tipperary, have spoken of their desperation and fears following a full week of sustained and violent clashes between a significant number of youths in the area. Speaking exclusively to Gript on condition of anonymity, Elm Park residents have said that the situation has now reached […]
A Fianna Fáil TD has acknowledged that “gang violence” is causing mayhem in the north Dublin suburb of Ballbriggan, saying that organised gangs are engaging in “stabbings, arson attacks” and that “a shopping centre was effectively taken over at the weekend”. Darragh O’Brien, a TD for the Fingal area, told the Adrian Kennedy Show that […]
Those of us who live in certain parts of Dublin and other cities and towns will be aware that there is a significant drug economy. Lots of people it would seem use all sorts of substances that can only be bought from the people who are the Dunnes Stores and Tescos of this economic demi-monde. […]
Joe Loughnane, who is standing in the coming election for PBP in Galway, has put out a statement admitting that a recording of him saying that he had “sorted a lot of drugs for a lot of people in this city” was legitimate and that he had made that statement. He says that he only […]
More evidence, one might argue, that progress and compassion aren’t necessarily linear. More people died of drug-related causes last year than at any time in the history of the State, new figures cited in the Dáil show. 736 people in Ireland died last year of drug-related causes, compared to just 431 in 2004, an increase […]
The worker, who did not wish to be named because of fears for his job, said “I’ve seen and heard all about it (cocaine) from the moment we started work…”
Another tale of happy, modern Ireland, brought to you by the Government’s Health Research Board (HRB): “The latest drug treatment figures from the Health Research Board (HRB) show a 50% increase in the number of cases presenting for cocaine treatment between 2017 and 2018. While opiates remain the most common drug reported among cases treated […]