Two people are dead and seven others seriously ill amid fears that a batch of very high purity heroin is in circulation in Cork.

The powder combination of ecstasy and the amphetamine PMMA found in Cork might be the first discovery of its kind in Europe.

A priest officiating at the funeral of a young man who is believed to have died as a result of taking a lethal form of ecstasy has condemned drug-dealers as “less than human” and “purveyors of grief and doom”.

Gardaí believe they have found what could be “the mother lode” of a potentially lethal drug which may already have claimed the lives of two young men.

A €27,000 drugs stash suspected of being linked to dealers peddling a deadly ecstasy mix which killed two young men has been seized.

A team of up to 60 gardaí are working to get a potentially lethal drug off the streets.

A young Waterford man who died in Co Cork after possibly taking a deadly drug was laid to rest yesterday.

It has emerged that a street drug thought to have played a part in the deaths of two men in Cork was responsible for the deaths of a number of other people across Europe.

Gardaí in Cork said today that they are treating the investigation into the deaths of two men in Kinsale last weekend as seriously as they would a murder inquiry.

The Funeral Mass has taken place in Dungarvan in Co Waterford for one of the two men who died in Kinsale, Co Cork last weekend.

Gardaí have today released a man without charge after he was questioned in connection with the deaths of two young men in Kinsale last weekend.

Health chiefs have issued a stark warning about a deadly form of ecstasy that has been linked to the deaths of two men in Co Cork.

A warning has been issued to recreational drug-users following the deaths of two young men in Cork.

Gardaí investigating the deaths of two men in Kinsale, in Co Cork on Sunday have made a further arrest.

A woman in her 20s, who was being questioned by gardaí in connection with the deaths of two men in County Cork, has been released from custody.

Gardaí are preparing files for the Director of Public Prosecutions after releasing without charge three people arrested on suspicion of drug dealing following the deaths of two young men from a suspected overdose at the weekend.

Two communities in west Waterford were yesterday trying to deal with the shock of the double tragedy in Kinsale.

Two men arrested in connection with the deaths of two friends in Kinsale, Co Cork at the weekend have been released without charge today.

Three men have been arrested in Co. Cork by gardaí investigating the deaths of two young men in Kinsale at the weekend.

A post mortem and toxicology tests will be carried out today on the bodies of two friends who died from suspected drug overdoses.

An autopsy is due to take place today on the bodies of two friends found dead after a suspected drugs overdose.

Even though they had just moved into the area, the young couple renting the dormer cottage on Abbey Lane in Kinsale, Co Cork, bought a baby present for their neighbours when their son was born four weeks ago.

The two men who were found dead in a house in Kinsale, Co Cork today have been named locally as Michael Coleman, from Dungarvan, who had moved to the area with his girlfriend, and Liam Coffey from Cappoquin.

ON Sunday, March 13, the Millstreet Pipers Band participated in the fifth Huddersfield St Patrick’s Day Parade.