Taskforce meets over boy jabbed with needle

A drugs taskforce met in Cork yesterday to discuss how best to tackle the city’s growing heroin crisis which saw a little boy jabbed by an addict’s needle he found discarded in his school yard.

Senior gardaí moved last night to reassure the public that drug squad officers have been active for some time in the area around the North Presentation primary school on the city’s northside where the incident occurred on Wednesday.

But anxious parents, who took it upon themselves to monitor activity in the laneways around the school yesterday morning, claimed they witnessed up to 30 drug deals.