Calls for action after three drug deaths in the last week

Outgoing drugs strategy minister Aodhán Ó’Ríordáin has joined calls for action on the drugs problem after three suspected drug-related deaths in the last week.

Sinn Féin drugs spokesman Jonathan O’Brien said on Wednesday that, last week, a 19-year-old man died from an overdose in Cork.

It followed the deaths of two men in Dublin’s north inner city: One whose body was not discovered for a week at a stairwell in a flats complex and another who died in public toilets in Connolly Station.