Fr McVerry’s work with homeless youth in Dublin’s inner city is highly valued and rightly so. However, he has become blinded by his righteous anger at the injustice of neglect to vulnerable and homeless people there.

The sizes of medicine packs, including some cold and flu remedies, could be reduced in a bid to counter the manufacture of illegal drugs.

Making a payment to a public official will be “presumed” to constitute corruption under upcoming legislation.

Ireland has a higher homicide rate than most of our European neighbours, according to a UN report.

The family of Michaella McCollum - the Tyrone woman sentenced to almost seven years in jail for trying to smuggle €1.7m of cocaine out of Peru has insisted she is innocent.

Prosecutors rejected the guilty pleas of an Irish woman and a Scottish woman who attempted to smuggle £1.5m worth of cocaine out of Peru.

The Irish and Scottish women accused of attempting to smuggle €1.5m worth of cocaine out of Peru have pleaded guilty, court officials said.

If there’s anywhere that understands the pain of Newtown, it’s Dunblane, the town whose grief became a catalyst for changes to Britain’s gun laws.

POLICING the booming heroin trade is likely to become more difficult across Europe, a top UN report has warned.

Afghanistan’s opium production declined by almost half this year due largely to the spread of a disease which damaged poppy plants, the UN’s drug agency said today.

Drug use has doubled in Afghanistan over the last four years with nearly 3% of adults now addicted to heroin and opium, a UN report said today.

THE Dunlough bay haul put Ireland on the world cocaine map.

YESTERDAY afternoon’s conviction of three men — a fourth man had earlier pleaded guilty — in the Dunlough Bay cocaine case raises serious concerns for us all.

Afghanistan produced dramatically more opium in 2006, increasing its yield by roughly 49% from a year earlier and pushing global opium production to a new record high, a UN report said today.

DRUGS strategy minister Noel Ahern has outlined his concerns over a boom in the supply of heroin, following a sharp increase in opium cultivation in Afghanistan.

LIKE many in this arid region, Abdurahman and his family are near-destitute people who possess vast riches.

Naomi Campbell has spoken out in support of Kate Moss in the face of cocaine abuse allegations.

Stable prices for heroin and a likely increase in the drug’s purity could lead to an increase in the number of overdose deaths, the UN drug agency warned today.

IRELAND tops the table in Western Europe for ecstasy and amphetamine use, according to a United Nations drug report.

PENAL reformers yesterday told UN drug chiefs that clean needles should be made available in prisons to cut the spread of infectious diseases, such as hepatitis and HIV.

Last week, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime published figures suggesting that Irish people were the biggest abusers of amphetamines in Europe, consuming more than five times as much as most other European countries.

IRELAND has again topped the drug table in western Europe for consumption of ecstasy and amphetamine.