#Drugs Crisis

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Man arrested in Cork on five-year-old drug charge hoped it had been forgotten
Man arrested in Cork on five-year-old drug charge hoped it had been forgotten
When he was arrested, the defendant gave a false name

Fri, 19 Sep, 2025

Cork gardaí investigating alleged Lithuanian crime gang compile 3,000-page file, court told
Cork gardaí investigating alleged Lithuanian crime gang compile 3,000-page file, court told
Sergeant John Kelleher gave details on the extent of the file as he explained why it was taking some time for DPP directions to be given in the case

Wed, 17 Sep, 2025

Limerick brothers charged with possession of cocaine and cannabis for sale or supply
Limerick brothers charged with possession of cocaine and cannabis for sale or supply
Court heard the drugs were allegedly offloaded to another man who stashed some of it in his underwear

Wed, 10 Sep, 2025

Woman feared for children's safety as Cork bag snatcher almost overturned buggy carrying infant
Woman feared for children's safety as Cork bag snatcher almost overturned buggy carrying infant
Woman from Northern Ireland was visiting Cork city for first time

Thu, 04 Sep, 2025

Cannabis ready to roll
Truck driver charged over €2.1m drug seizure in Cork remanded in custody
Man remanded the accused in custody until September 17

Wed, 03 Sep, 2025

COLOMBIA-MARIJUANA-PROTEST
Cork man gets suspended sentence for fourth conviction for drug possession again
The defendant told Macroom District Court he took cannabis to help with pain management and worked as a panel beater

Wed, 03 Sep, 2025

Community networks left out of National Drugs Strategy steering group for first time in 30 years 
Community networks left out of National Drugs Strategy steering group for first time in 30 years 
Department of health set up steering group last month 

Mon, 01 Sep, 2025

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Cork man accused of dealing from a 'drugs storehouse' remanded in custody
The court heard that the accused was found with €3,000 worth of heroin stuffed down his pants

Mon, 01 Sep, 2025

Cork City Hall event to hear about neuroscientist's recovery from 15-year heroin addiction
Cork City Hall event to hear about neuroscientist's recovery from 15-year heroin addiction
Ahead of the event, Brian Pennie said: 'Recovery is about so much more than simply getting clean. It’s about rebuilding your life from the inside out'

Mon, 01 Sep, 2025

HSE launch project in Cork to provide take-home medicine packs that reverse opioid overdoses
HSE launch project in Cork to provide take-home medicine packs that reverse opioid overdoses
The team will provide naloxone directly to people who have overdosed but decline ambulance transport to hospital

Fri, 29 Aug, 2025

HSE warns Electric Picnic festivalgoers over high-strength drugs in circulation
HSE warns Electric Picnic festivalgoers over high-strength drugs in circulation
The HSE has urged Electric Picnic attendees to use its on-site harm reduction tents as concerns grow over high-potency drugs

Wed, 27 Aug, 2025

Irish police
Co-operation with Poland leads to more than €8m worth of drugs seized in Ireland
Thirteen Polish nationals were arrested in Ireland during the course of the investigation

Tue, 19 Aug, 2025

Cannabis plants worth more than €750,000 seized in Co Louth
Cannabis plants worth more than €750,000 seized in Co Louth
A large-scale cannabis cultivation factory was found after a premises in Drogheda was searched by gardaí attached to the Dublin Crime Response Team

Wed, 06 Aug, 2025

Poison
Alcohol Ireland's leading addiction among those seeking treatment from services, new report shows
Alcohol accounted for 40% of all presentations to drug and alcohol treatment service Coolmine so far this year, followed by cocaine at 31%

Wed, 06 Aug, 2025

Cannabis ready to roll
Truck driver 'maintaining his innocence' over €2.1m cannabis seizure in Cork, court told
Cork District Court heard that the employers of the accused were 'very concerned about their truck'

Wed, 06 Aug, 2025

James Mahon: Hawk against the Dove photography exhibition
Woman who was homeless in Kildare says a stranger’s kindness saved her life
Antoinette Foley, who is recovering from addiction to heroin and crack cocaine, has urged people not to make assumptions about people who are sleeping rough

Mon, 04 Aug, 2025

Cocaine seizure
Gardaí investigate narco-subs used by cartels to smuggle cocaine into Ireland
Gardaí are probing how narco-subs used by South American cartels could be moving drugs into Irish and European waters

Fri, 01 Aug, 2025

Alcohol Change UK survey
Alcohol and drug treatment cases jump almost 80% since 2017
Cocaine replaced cannabis in 2022 as the most common additional drug, according to a report from the Health Research Board

Thu, 31 Jul, 2025

Garda inscription on a police jacket from Ireland
Drug searches in Ireland fall by 7,000 amid garda staffing crisis
Drug searches fell by 15% last year, with garda unions warning of staff shortages and 1,900 possible retirements by 2028

Thu, 31 Jul, 2025

Courts of Criminal Justice, Dublin
Five men jailed for roles in 'cruel and sadistic' torture of woman over false accusation
The sentencing judge said the offending 'demonstrates the evils associated with the drugs trade' and its wider criminal associations

Wed, 30 Jul, 2025

Medical Marijuana Edibles, Candies Infused with CBD HHC or THC Cannabis in food industry
Ireland finally bans HHC 'but we must be vigilant about new drugs’
HHC, widely available to children as vapes and edibles, has been linked to serious medical episodes and psychosis here in Ireland

Wed, 30 Jul, 2025

HHC added to list of illegal drugs in Ireland by health minister
HHC added to list of illegal drugs in Ireland by health minister
The import, export, production, possession, sale, or supply of products containing HHC is now illegal.

Tue, 29 Jul, 2025

Despair
Diversion scheme for those caught in possession of drugs to be in place by November
Health intervention to operate on discretion of gardaí

Tue, 29 Jul, 2025

Oberstown Campus
Cork teenager who threatened to kill woman told by judge to sort out his drug and anger issues
Judge Carroll told the youth that he has great potential but she said: 'You need structure, you need routine.'

Mon, 28 Jul, 2025

Man arrested after cannabis worth €2.1m seized in Cork
Man arrested after cannabis worth €2.1m seized in Cork
Revenue officers seized 107kgs of herbal cannabis at the Port of Cork on Sunday with the help of detector dog Rua

Mon, 28 Jul, 2025

Courts of Criminal Justice, Dublin
Woman will never forgive the 'sick human beings' who tortured her over false accusation
The woman was left with a broken eye socket, broken cheekbone, broken nasal bone, broken elbow, burns, dislocated teeth, bruising and lacerations

Fri, 25 Jul, 2025

Number of festivals to have HSE's harm reduction initiative is halved ahead of drugs strategy review
Number of festivals to have HSE's harm reduction initiative is halved ahead of drugs strategy review
HSE says it can't expand its Safer Nightlife Programme in its 'current format' and hopes for a policy change

Fri, 25 Jul, 2025

Man in prison hands of behind hold Steel cage jail bars. offender criminal locked in jail.
Prisons turned into 'human warehouses' by chronic overcrowding — Council of Europe inspectors
Overcrowding, violence — and a mentally-ill female prisoner who 'had not had access to a shower for four days' — among issues raised by the Council of Europe Committee on the Prevention of Torture 

Thu, 24 Jul, 2025

Cannabis ready to roll
Man convicted for possession of drugs is 'at a crossroads', says judge
Kyle Fahy admitted to the possession of cannabis at his residence on November 7, 2024, and to the possession of cannabis and cocaine on January 12, 2025

Wed, 23 Jul, 2025

'I'm not taking the blame for any of this': Court hears of 'narco boat' in failed smuggling operation
'I'm not taking the blame for any of this': Court hears of 'narco boat' in failed smuggling operation
Gardaí believe that the rigid inflatable boat left Tragumna on March 12, 2024, in a failed bid to meet the Cool Explorer to pick up some 850kg of cocaine while at sea

Wed, 23 Jul, 2025

drug syringe and cooked heroin on spoon. drug addict problem and therapy concept
Community collaboration is 'critical' to drug strategy success, report says
Funding and staffing constraints affecting local projects, evaluation states

Tue, 22 Jul, 2025

Heroin in Kerry: 'They want to pretend it's not happening' 
Heroin in Kerry: 'They want to pretend it's not happening' 
Sarah Horgan talks to a recovering addict, a local resident, and health professionals — including a needle exchange worker who says some people are slow to acknowledge the problem

Mon, 21 Jul, 2025

Bags of cocaine from cargo ship had GPS tags, Special Criminal Court hears 
Bags of cocaine from cargo ship had GPS tags, Special Criminal Court hears 
More detail from the conspiracy to import drugs trial will be heard on Tuesday

Mon, 21 Jul, 2025

Cocaine in plastic packet on black background
Man was selling cocaine for well-known Bandon family, court hears
Bandon District Court was told that the accused was 'acting at the behest' of a family from Bandon who were well-known to the court and involved in drug-dealing

Mon, 21 Jul, 2025

drug syringe and cooked heroin on spoon. drug addict problem and therapy concept
'Young people and rural areas let down by lack of drug treatment and prevention services'
Independent evaluation of Government’s drug strategy makes 10 strategic recommendations

Mon, 21 Jul, 2025

drug syringe and cooked heroin on spoon. drug addict problem and therapy concept
Cork woman to be sentenced in October for dealing heroin two years ago
Cork District Court heard that the 35-year-old woman has detoxed completely and accessed services in Limerick Prison

Fri, 18 Jul, 2025

Two arrested after gardaí seize drugs worth over €715,000 in Dublin
Two arrested after gardaí seize drugs worth over €715,000 in Dublin
While on routine patrol in the Rathcoole/City west areas of Dublin, gardaí stopped a vehicle at around 3:45am

Thu, 17 Jul, 2025

Drug taker
Available, affordable, potent: Ireland is being hit by 'a perfect storm' of cocaine 
A new HRB study links the availability, affordability, and purity of cocaine being trafficked into Ireland with a massive surge in cocaine-related admissions to hospitals

Thu, 17 Jul, 2025

FRANCE-DEMO-DRUG-CANNABIS
Younger people drinking less but smoking more cannabis than older generations
While 70% of older people considered their mental health to be good or very good, this fell to just over half for people aged 18-24

Fri, 11 Jul, 2025

Spanish man pleads guilty to conspiring to smuggle large quantity of drugs into Ireland
Spanish man pleads guilty to conspiring to smuggle large quantity of drugs into Ireland
Accused had been arrested in connection with the Tragumna drugs case in West Cork

Wed, 09 Jul, 2025

Wife of one of 10 men charged in Cork drugs case died of cancer while he was in custody, court told
Wife of one of 10 men charged in Cork drugs case died of cancer while he was in custody, court told
The men were arrested following dramatic garda raids in the West Cork villages of Tragumna and Leap near Skibbereen last year

Mon, 07 Jul, 2025

'Ireland needs military-grade drones to fend off bombardment of drugs by cocaine cartels' 
'Ireland needs military-grade drones to fend off bombardment of drugs by cocaine cartels' 
In the wake of the Broadstrand drugs seizure and convictions following the MV Matthew case, security sources say Ireland must up its game to tackle drug trafficking

Mon, 07 Jul, 2025

Iran, Hezbollah, and the Kinahans in league to bring tonnes of cocaine through Ireland
Iran, Hezbollah, and the Kinahans in league to bring tonnes of cocaine through Ireland
Direct links between Hezbollah and the two Iranians sentenced on Friday for their involvement in a drug trafficking operation on the MV Matthew, are also suspected.

Sun, 06 Jul, 2025

MV Matthew crew were no mere cogs — they played a vital role in cocaine trafficking venture
MV Matthew crew were no mere cogs — they played a vital role in cocaine trafficking venture
Guilty pleas reduced their sentences but the Special Criminal Court found the men were more than mere drugs mules

Sat, 05 Jul, 2025

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