Garda chief warns of crystal meth ‘scourge’

GARDA commissioner Fachtna Murphy issued a chilling warning about a new drugs threat facing this country known as crystal meth.

Commissioner Murphy, speaking at a graduation of 286 new gardaí at Templemore College, referring to the “scourge” of crystal methamphetamine, said: “I would ask and plead with the public, doctors, nurses, parents who may come by information on this drug, to contact the gardaí and make sure this scourge of drug does not come into this country. I will be doing everything possible to see that this drug does not filter into this country.”

Commissioner Murphy pointed to problems crystal meth has caused in the US.