Shock over discovery of €17,500 cocaine haul at school

THE discovery of €17,500 worth of cocaine in a primary school has horrified teachers and parents.

A package of the highly addictive drug was discovered by gardaí at the back of Our Lady of Mercy Primary School, on Pearse Road, in Sligo.

Drug dealers who were under surveillance by the local drugs division, are believed to have trafficked the cocaine from the North. They threw the drugs over the back wall of the school into a concrete yard at night. Detectives seized the drugs at 12.30am.