Judge urges more facilities to help drug addicts

A judge has said that until a sufficient number of properly resourced facilities for drug addicts are put in place, more deaths like that suffered by James Sherlock will occur.

The body of the 24-year-old double leg amputee was found on the grounds of Ennis Golf Club in August after dying of a suspected drug overdose.

Mr Sherlock was on bail awaiting sentence before Ennis Circuit Court for his conviction for setting fire to the Lakes Nursing Home in Killaloe in Aug 2010.