Multi-agency heroin crackdown urged

A robust multi-agency crackdown has been demanded by a city councillor who witnessed heroin being sold openly in daytime in a busy public park in Cork.

Fine Gael councillor Emmet O’Halloran described the drug-dealing as a sinister development and said the HSE, city officials, and gardaí need to work together to devise an urgent response.“It was quite shocking to see this going on in broad daylight in a busy city park in the city,” he said.

Mr O’Halloran had been enjoying a lunchtime coffee, midweek in Bishop Lucey Park off the Grand Parade when he witnessed the incident. The park, he said, was packed with tourists, parents and children enjoying the sunshine, students, and office workers on lunch breaks.