Limerick priest compares country’s drug dealers to paedophiles

OUTSPOKEN Limerick priest Fr Joe Young yesterday compared drug dealers to paedophiles.

He said: “What they do is tantamount to child abuse, pushing heroin and other deadly drugs on youngsters and shutting them off from a normal happy childhood.”

He said the combination of drug addiction and drug debts is throwing many families in Limerick into misery and poverty.