Weekly cocaine parties fuel growing drug problem in Waterford

COCAINE parties in “session houses” around Waterford are a weekly occurrence, it was claimed yesterday, as two local men continued to fight for their lives after taking ill at a party on Sunday morning.

It also emerged that the person thought to have supplied the drugs that left Kevin Doyle, 21, and John Grey, 23, on the critical list at Waterford Regional Hospital was supplying cocaine for the first time in the Ballybeg suburb.

With many neighbours claiming on Sunday to have heard nothing from the party in Ballybeg Square, it is thought those present banned music or any kind of noise to avoid attention from gardaí.