Ex-heroin addict swaps addiction for pottery classes

One of Cork’s first heroin addicts has swapped his addiction for a pottery class.

Liam Hurley who is now 32, got addicted to alcohol at 13 and by 17 he was addicted to heroin.

Hurley, of 190, Farranferris Avenue, Farranree, Cork, was before Cork District Court yesterday for sentencing on a charge of possession of three deals of heroin in a house that was under Garda surveillance for drug dealing.