SPECIAL REPORT, DAY 1: Heroin can be bought ‘faster than a pizza’

‘Jack’ says you can buy heroin in Cork faster “than you’d get a pizza”.

“It’s the area where I live; it’s rampant. You’ll get it on tick [on credit] and then you’ll have drug dealers coming to the door demanding money and saying they’ll burn the house down, wreck your car and go after your grandchildren. It’s all fear based,” he says.

Jack is a member of Youth Work Ireland’s concerned parents’ group. ‘The group’, he says, changed his life and inadvertently that of his children, three of whom take or used to take heroin.