Almost three quarters of clients of a Dublin drug rehabilitation programme are drug free after two years, according to a study.

It started at age 12 with diazepam, given to him by a friend who had dipped into his mother’s prescription tablets. Unfortunately for Charles Lane, what started out as an innocent enough act set him on a path towards drug addiction — cannabis, cocaine, ecstasy, heroin — and ultimately prison.

One of the country’s longest-running specialist drug centres witnessed a 31% jump in demand for services last year.

U19 Interprovincials: Leinster were clinical defeating Munster (19-10) in Saturday’s U19 Interprovincial Championship at Templeville Road.

The alcohol and pharmaceutical industries should use some of their profits to fund addiction services, a leading drug charity has said.

Drug addicts seeking help at one treatment centre are mostly in their 30s and more than half are from outside the capital, it was revealed at a celebration to mark 40 years of helping people rebuild their lives after drug addiction.

A man will be sentenced later after he threatened to kill a woman and put her in the boot of his car as she collected her son from school.

A mother of four who was caught twice dealing heroin in Cork City was described yesterday as a serious drug dealer.

THE amendment to the constitution proposed in the children’s rights referendum seems, by fairly widespread consent among those expressing informed opinions, to be at least reasonably well worded and most certainly well intentioned.

Exasperated staff at the country’s only mother and child detox unit have been told by the Government to apply for lottery funding in a last-ditch effort to keep the unit open.

New laws to combat the street sale of tranquillisers are expected to form part of a government action plan to be published this year.

CROSSHAVEN will defend their All-Ireland Junior Cup with a long trip to Belfast where they face Cooke tomorrow.

DRUG users who want to quit their habit are being forced to wait up to three months before they can access residential treatment at one of the country’s best known treatment centres.

This week's Leinster schools results and fixtures.

The draws for the Leinster Schools Senior and Junior Cup competitions have been made in Lansdowne FC tonight.

More than 36 teams have been confirmed for the fourth annual High King Tens rugby tournament at Navan Rugby Football Club from August 20 to August 22.

Leinster Junior Rugby coach Tony Bellow has announced his squad for upcoming interprovincial fixtures.

This weekend's junior rugby fixtures in Leinster