Cork Local Drug and Alcohol Task Force wants injecting centres to be established in city

The Cork Local Drug and Alcohol Task Force has called for medically supervised injecting centres to be established, where required, outside Dublin.

The move follows a landmark Cabinet decision to set up a centre in Dublin on a pilot basis.

The taskforce passed a motion “calling for support, and further exploration, of medically supervised injecting centres (MSIC)” as part of a range of harm-reduction measures.